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Context: Identifying potential vulnerable code is important to improve the security of our software systems. However, the manual detection of software vulnerabilities requires expert knowledge and is time-consuming, and must be supported by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Laura Wartschinski , Yannic Noller , Thomas Vogel , Timo Kehrer , Lars Grunske

In software development, developers extensively utilize third-party libraries to avoid implementing existing functionalities. When a new third-party library vulnerability is disclosed, project maintainers need to determine whether their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Zirui Chen , Xing Hu , Xin Xia , Yi Gao , Tongtong Xu , David Lo , Xiaohu Yang

Training machine learning approaches for vulnerability identification and producing reliable tools to assist developers in implementing quality software -- free of vulnerabilities -- is challenging due to the lack of large datasets and real…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Sofia Reis , Rui Abreu

The explosive growth of mini-game platforms has led to widespread code plagiarism, where malicious users access popular games' source code and republish them with modifications. While existing static analysis tools can detect simple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhihao Li , Chaozheng Wang , Zongjie Li , Xinyong Peng , Qun Xia , Haochuan Lu , Ting Xiong , Shuzheng Gao , Cuiyun Gao , Shuai Wang , Yuetang Deng , Huafeng Ma

Recent years have seen smart contracts are getting increasingly popular in building trustworthy decentralized applications. Previous research has proposed static and dynamic techniques to detect vulnerabilities in smart contracts. These…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Jiaming Ye , Mingliang Ma , Yun Lin , Lei Ma , Yinxing Xue , Jianjun Zhao

The high complexity of modern software supply chains necessitates tools such as Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) to manage component dependencies, and Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools to identify vulnerabilities. While there…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Howell Xia , Jonah Gluck , Sevval Simsek , David Sastre Medina , David Starobinski

In recent years, the rapid growth of security vulnerabilities poses great challenges to tracing and managing them. For example, it was reported that the NVD database experienced significant delays due to the shortage of maintainers. Such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Xueqing Liu , Yuchen Xiong , Qiushi Liu , Jiangrui Zheng

One of the most pressing threats to computing systems is software vulnerabilities, which can compromise both hardware and software components. Existing methods for vulnerability detection remain suboptimal. Traditional techniques are both…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Jin Wang , Zishan Huang , Hengli Liu , Nianyi Yang , Yinhao Xiao

With the rapid expansion of web-based applications and cloud services, malicious JavaScript code continues to pose significant threats to user privacy, system integrity, and enterprise security. But, detecting such threats remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Zhihong Liang , Xin Wang , Zhenhuang Hu , Liangliang Song , Lin Chen , Jingjing Guo , Yanbin Wang , Ye Tian

We present a second iteration of a machine learning approach to static code analysis and fingerprinting for weaknesses related to security, software engineering, and others using the open-source MARF framework and the MARFCAT application…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-05-13 Serguei A. Mokhov , Joey Paquet , Mourad Debbabi , Yankui Sun

In recent years, the growing complexity and scale of source code have rendered manual software vulnerability detection increasingly impractical. To address this challenge, automated approaches leveraging machine learning and code embeddings…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Talaya Farasat , Joachim Posegga

Open Source Software (OSS) security and resilience are worldwide phenomena hampering economic and technological innovation. OSS vulnerabilities can cause unauthorized access, data breaches, network disruptions, and privacy violations,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Nafis Tanveer Islam , Gonzalo De La Torre Parra , Dylan Manual , Murtuza Jadliwala , Peyman Najafirad

Pointers are a powerful, but dangerous feature provided by the C and C++ programming languages, and incorrect use of pointers is a common source of bugs and security vulnerabilities. Making secure software is crucial, as vulnerabilities…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Vlad-Alexandru Teodorescu , Dorel Lucanu

Deep learning classifiers achieve state-of-the-art performance in various risk detection applications. They explore rich semantic representations and are supposed to automatically discover risk behaviors. However, due to the lack of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Yiling He , Jian Lou , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

Software vulnerabilities present a persistent security challenge, with over 25,000 new vulnerabilities reported in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database in 2024 alone. While deep learning based approaches show promise for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Ahmed Lekssays , Hamza Mouhcine , Khang Tran , Ting Yu , Issa Khalil

Knowledge-based systems reason over some knowledge base. Hence, an important issue for such systems is how to acquire the knowledge needed for their inference. This paper assesses active learning methods for acquiring knowledge for "static…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Xueqi Yang , Zhe Yu , Junjie Wang , Tim Menzies

Advances in voice conversion and text-to-speech synthesis have made automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems more susceptible to spoofing attacks. This work explores modest refinements to the AASIST anti-spoofing architecture. It…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Ivan Viakhirev , Daniil Sirota , Aleksandr Smirnov , Kirill Borodin

Filesystem vulnerabilities persist as a significant threat to Android systems, despite various proposed defenses and testing techniques. The complexity of program behaviors and access control mechanisms in Android systems makes it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yu-Tsung Lee , Hayawardh Vijayakumar , Zhiyun Qian , Trent Jaeger

With the development of blockchain technology, the detection of smart contract vulnerabilities is increasingly emphasized. However, when detecting vulnerabilities in inter-contract interactions (i.e., cross-contract vulnerabilities) using…

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