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Deep Learning (DL)-based methods have proven to be effective for software vulnerability detection, with a potential for substantial productivity enhancements for detecting vulnerabilities. Current methods mainly focus on detecting single…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Xin-Cheng Wen , Xinchen Wang , Yujia Chen , Ruida Hu , David Lo , Cuiyun Gao

Software security is becoming a high priority for both large companies and start-ups alike due to the increasing potential for harm that vulnerabilities and breaches carry with them. However, attaining robust security assurance while…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-06 David N. Palacio , Daniel McCrystal , Kevin Moran , Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Denys Poshyvanyk , Chris Shenefiel

Background: Leaking sensitive information - such as API keys, tokens, and credentials - in source code remains a persistent security threat. Traditional regex and entropy-based tools often generate high false positives due to limited…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Md Nafiu Rahman , Sadif Ahmed , Zahin Wahab , S M Sohan , Rifat Shahriyar

Identifying recurring vulnerabilities is crucial for ensuring software security. Clone-based techniques, while widely used, often generate many false alarms due to the existence of similar but patched (SBP) code, which is similar to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zixuan Tan , Jiayuan Zhou , Xing Hu , Shengyi Pan , Kui Liu , Xin Xia

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Henrik Plate , Serena Elisa Ponta , Antonino Sabetta

Vision Language Models (VLMs) hold great promise for streamlining labour-intensive medical imaging workflows, yet systematic security evaluations in clinical settings remain scarce. We introduce VSF--Med, an end-to-end vulnerability-scoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Binesh Sadanandan , Vahid Behzadan

We present a novel idea on adequacy testing called ``{vulnerability coverage}.'' The introduced coverage measure examines the underlying software for the presence of certain classes of vulnerabilities often found in the National…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Shuvalaxmi Dass , Akbar Siami Namin

Automating software vulnerability detection (SVD) remains a critical challenge in an era of increasingly complex and interdependent software systems. Despite significant advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) for code analysis, prevailing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Arastoo Zibaeirad , Marco Vieira

Critical open source software systems undergo significant validation in the form of lengthy fuzz campaigns. The fuzz campaigns typically conduct a biased random search over the domain of program inputs, to find inputs which crash the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yuntong Zhang , Jiawei Wang , Dominic Berzin , Martin Mirchev , Dongge Liu , Abhishek Arya , Oliver Chang , Abhik Roychoudhury

Detecting and fixing bugs are two of the most important yet frustrating parts of the software development cycle. Existing bug detection tools are based mainly on static analyzers, which rely on mathematical logic and symbolic reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Dawn Drain , Chen Wu , Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Neel Sundaresan

Fault diagnosis (FD) is essential for maintaining operational safety and minimizing economic losses by detecting system abnormalities. Recently, deep learning (DL)-driven FD methods have gained prominence, offering significant improvements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Dandan Zhao , Karthick Sharma , Hongpeng Yin , Yuxin Qi , Shuhao Zhang

Source-Free Object Detection (SFOD) aims to adapt a source-pretrained object detector to a target domain without access to source data. However, existing SFOD methods predominantly rely on internal knowledge from the source model, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Huizai Yao , Sicheng Zhao , Pengteng Li , Yi Cui , Shuo Lu , Weiyu Guo , Yunfan Lu , Yijie Xu , Hui Xiong

The application of Artificial Intelligence has become a powerful approach to detecting software vulnerabilities. However, effective vulnerability detection relies on accurately capturing the semantic structure of code and its contextual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-12 José Gonçalves , Miguel Silva , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

The rapid advancement of pre-trained language models (PLMs) has demonstrated promising results for various code-related tasks. However, their effectiveness in detecting real-world vulnerabilities remains a critical challenge. While existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Youpeng Li , Weiliang Qi , Xuyu Wang , Fuxun Yu , Xinda Wang

Software vulnerability detection can be formulated as a binary classification problem that determines whether a given code snippet contains security defects. Existing multimodal methods typically fuse Natural Code Sequence (NCS)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yun Bian , Yi Chen , HaiQuan Wang , ShiHao Li , Zhe Cui

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

Traditional vulnerability detection methods rely heavily on predefined rule matching, which often fails to capture vulnerabilities accurately. With the rise of large language models (LLMs), leveraging their ability to understand code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xiang Li , Yueci Su , Jiahao Liu , Zhiwei Lin , Yuebing Hou , Peiming Gao , Yuanchao Zhang

Fault tolerance is a critical aspect of modern computing systems, ensuring correct functionality in the presence of faults. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of fault tolerance methods and software-based mitigation techniques in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Mohammadreza Amel Solouki , Shaahin Angizi , Massimo Violante

In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, addressing security vulnerabilities in open-source software (OSS) has become critically important. However, existing research and tools from both academia and industry mainly relied…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Lyuye Zhang , Jiahui Wu , Chengwei Liu , Kaixuan Li , Xiaoyu Sun , Lida Zhao , Chong Wang , Yang Liu

Background: Security regressions are vulnerabilities introduced in a previously unaffected software system. They often happen as a result of source code changes (e.g., a bug fix) and can have severe effects. Aims: To increase the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Larissa Braz , Enrico Fregnan , Vivek Arora , Alberto Bacchelli