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Software applications integrate more and more open-source software (OSS) to benefit from code reuse. As a drawback, each vulnerability discovered in bundled OSS potentially affects the application. Upon the disclosure of every new…

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Open source software ecosystems consist of thousands of interdependent libraries, which users can combine to great effect. Recent work has pointed out two kinds of risks in these systems: that technical problems like bugs and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-11 William Schueller , Johannes Wachs

Vulnerability detection plays a key role in secure software development. There are many different vulnerability detection tools and techniques to choose from, and insufficient information on which vulnerability detection techniques to use…

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Vulnerabilities in open-source operating systems (OSs) pose substantial security risks to software systems, making their detection crucial. While fuzzing has been an effective vulnerability detection technique in various domains, OS fuzzing…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kun Hu , Qicai Chen , Wenzhuo Zhang , Zilong Lu , Bihuan Chen , You Lu , Haowen Jiang , Bingkun Sun , Xin Peng , Wenyun Zhao

Open-source third-party libraries are widely used in software development. These libraries offer substantial advantages in terms of time and resource savings. However, a significant concern arises due to the publicly disclosed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Yi Gao , Xing Hu , Zirui Chen , Xiaohu Yang

This paper presents a framework that selectively triggers security reviews for incoming source code changes. Functioning as a review bot within a code review service, the framework can automatically request additional security reviews at…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Keun Soo Yim

Failure detection is a fundamental building block for ensuring fault tolerance in large scale distributed systems. There are lots of approaches and implementations in failure detectors. Providing flexible failure detection in off-the-shelf…

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The same defect can be rediscovered by multiple clients, causing unplanned outages and leading to reduced customer satisfaction. In the case of popular open source software, high volume of defects is reported on a regular basis. A large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Mefta Sadat , Ayse Basar Bener , Andriy V. Miranskyy

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in code generation and comprehension, yet their application to complex software engineering tasks often suffers from low precision and limited interpretability. We present Repeton,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Nguyen Phu Vinh , Anh Chung Hoang , Chris Ngo , Truong-Son Hy

Software vulnerabilities can result in catastrophic cyberattacks that increasingly threaten business operations. Consequently, ensuring the safety of software systems has become a paramount concern for both private and public sectors.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Boyu Zhang , Triet H. M. Le , M. Ali Babar

Security patches in open-source software, providing security fixes to identified vulnerabilities, are crucial in protecting against cyberattacks. Despite the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) publishes identified vulnerabilities, a vast…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Yaqin Zhou , Jing Kai Siow , Chenyu Wang , Shangqing Liu , Yang Liu

Recognizing vulnerabilities in stripped binary files presents a significant challenge in software security. Although some progress has been made in generating human-readable information from decompiled binary files with Large Language…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Nasir Hussain , Haohan Chen , Chanh Tran , Philip Huang , Zhuohao Li , Pravir Chugh , William Chen , Ashish Kundu , Yuan Tian

RSNet is an open-source R package that provides a resampling-based framework for robust and interpretable network inference, designed to address the limited-sample-size challenges common in high-dimensional data. It supports both the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Ziwei Huang , Zeyuan Song , Paola Sebastiani , Stefano Monti

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various cybersecurity tasks, including vulnerability classification, detection, and patching. However, their potential in automated vulnerability report…

Open-source software (OSS) is widely reused as it provides convenience and efficiency in software development. Despite evident benefits, unmanaged OSS components can introduce threats, such as vulnerability propagation and license…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Seunghoon Woo , Sunghan Park , Seulbae Kim , Heejo Lee , Hakjoo Oh

Open-source software serves as a foundation for the internet and the cyber supply chain, but its exploitation is becoming increasingly prevalent. While advances in vulnerability detection for OSS have been significant, prior research has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zhuoran Tan , Christos Anagnosstopoulos , Jeremy Singer

The adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) for automated software vulnerability patching has shown promising outcomes on carefully curated evaluation sets. Nevertheless, existing datasets predominantly rely on superficial validation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Weizhe Wang , Wei Ma , Qiang Hu , Yao Zhang , Jianfei Sun , Bin Wu , Yang Liu , Guangquan Xu , Lingxiao Jiang

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape and advanced software development, the rise in cyber security attacks has become a pressing concern. The integration of robust cyber security defenses has become essential across all…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Mounika Vanamala , Keith Bryant , Alex Caravella

Software vulnerabilities continue to pose significant threats to modern information systems, requiring a timely and accurate risk assessment. Public repositories, such as the National Vulnerability Database and CVE details, are regularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Luat Do , Jiao Yin , Jinli Cao , Hua Wang

Recent research has revealed that the reported results of an emerging body of DL-based techniques for detecting software vulnerabilities are not reproducible, either across different datasets or on unseen samples. This paper aims to provide…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Satyaki Das , Syeda Tasnim Fabiha , Saad Shafiq , Nenad Medvidovic