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Security is a critical issue of the modern file and storage systems, it is imperative to protect the stored data from unauthorized access. We have developed a file security system named as Java File Security System (JFSS) [1] that guarantee…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Brijender Kahanwal , Dr. Tejinder Pal Singh , Dr. R. K. Tuteja

Large repositories of source code for research tend to limit their utility to static analysis of the code, as they give no guarantees on whether the projects are compilable, much less runnable in any way. The immediate consequence of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Pedro Martins , Rohan Achar , Cristina V. Lopes

Test resources are usually limited and therefore it is often not possible to completely test an application before a release. Therefore, testers need to focus their activities on the relevant code regions. In this paper, we introduce an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Rainer Niedermayr , Tobias Röhm , Stefan Wagner

Along with the development of large language models (LLMs), e.g., ChatGPT, many existing approaches and tools for software security are changing. It is, therefore, essential to understand how security-aware these models are and how these…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Jingyue Li , Per Håkon Meland , Jakob Svennevik Notland , André Storhaug , Jostein Hjortland Tysse

Linux kernel stable versions serve the needs of users who value stability of the kernel over new features. The quality of such stable versions depends on the initiative of kernel developers and maintainers to propagate bug fixing patches to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Thong Hoang , Julia Lawall , Yuan Tian , Richard J Oentaryo , David Lo

With an ever-increasing amount of open source software, the popularity of services like GitHub that facilitate code reuse, and common misconceptions about the licensing of open source software, the problem of license violations in the code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yaroslav Golubev , Maria Eliseeva , Nikita Povarov , Timofey Bryksin

Modern processor advancements have introduced security risks, particularly in the form of microarchitectural timing attacks. High-profile attacks such as Meltdown and Spectre have revealed critical flaws, compromising the entire system's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Congcong Chen , Jinhua Cui , Jiliang Zhang

We examine the state of publicly available information about known exploitable vulnerabilities applicable to operational technology (OT) environments. Specifically, we analyze the Known Exploitable Vulnerabilities Catalog (KEVC) maintained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Philip Huff , Nishka Gandu , Pavel Novák

Defects4J has enabled numerous software testing and debugging research work since its introduction. A large part of its contribution, and the resulting popularity, lies in the clear separation and distillation of the root cause of each…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Gabin An , Juyeon Yoon , Shin Yoo

PRF is a Java-based framework that allows researchers to build prototypes of test-based generate-and-validate automatic program repair techniques for JVM languages by simply extending it with their patch generation plugins. The framework…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Ali Ghanbari , Andrian Marcus

Developers often build software on top of third-party libraries (Libs) to improve productivity, but these libraries may contain vulnerabilities that enable supply chain attacks. Existing tools detect vulnerable dependencies, yet developers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ying Zhang , Wenjia Song , Zhengjie Ji , Danfeng , Yao , Na Meng

During testing, developers can place oracles externally or internally with respect to a method. Given a faulty execution state, i.e., one that differs from the expected one, an oracle might be unable to expose the fault if it is placed at a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Gunel Jahangirova , David Clark , Mark Harman , Paolo Tonella

In this paper, we perform a comprehensive study of 2,470 patched Android vulnerabilities that we collect from different data sources such as Android security bulletins, CVEDetails, Qualcomm Code Aurora, AOSP Git repository, and Linux…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Sadegh Farhang , Mehmet Bahadir Kirdan , Aron Laszka , Jens Grossklags

Much of the current software depends on open-source components, which in turn have complex dependencies on other open-source libraries. Vulnerabilities in open source therefore have potentially huge impacts. The goal of this work is to get…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Tobias Dam , Sebastian Neumaier

Timely resolution and disclosure of vulnerabilities are essential for maintaining the security of open-source software. However, many vulnerabilities remain unreported, unpatched, or undisclosed for extended periods, exposing users to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Arjun Sridharkumar , Sara Al Hajj Ibrahim , Jiayuan Zhou , Yuliang Wang , Safwat Hassan , Ahmed E. Hassan , Shurui Zhou

Understanding how software defects manifest and evolve in production environments is critical for improving reliability. While previous research has largely focused on pre-release defects, the nature of residual faults, i.e., those escaping…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Domenico Cotroneo , Giuseppe De Rosa , Cristina Improta , Benedetta Gaia Varriale

Real-world programs are neither monolithic nor static -- they are constructed using platform and third party libraries, and both programs and libraries continuously evolve in response to change pressure. In case of the Java language, rules…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-08-13 Jens Dietrich , Kamil Jezek , Premek Brada

Malicious attacks on open-source software packages are a growing concern. The discovery of the XZ Utils backdoor intensified these concerns because of the potential widespread impact. This study, therefore, explores the challenges of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Duc-Ly Vu , Trevor Dunlap , Karla Obermeier-Velazquez , Thanh-Cong Nguyen , Paul Gibert , John Speed Meyers , Santiago Torres-Arias

Adversarial patch attacks threaten the reliability of modern vision models. We present PatchMap, the first spatially exhaustive benchmark of patch placement, built by evaluating over 1.5e8 forward passes on ImageNet validation images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Shai Kimhi , Avi Mendlson , Moshe Kimhi

Third-party libraries like Log4j accelerate software application development but introduce substantial risk. Vulnerabilities in these libraries have led to Software Supply Chain (SSC) attacks that compromised resources within the host…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Paschal C. Amusuo , Kyle A. Robinson , Tanmay Singla , Huiyun Peng , Aravind Machiry , Santiago Torres-Arias , Laurent Simon , James C. Davis