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In this paper, we address the problem of automatic repair of software vulnerabilities with deep learning. The major problem with data-driven vulnerability repair is that the few existing datasets of known confirmed vulnerabilities consist…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Zimin Chen , Steve Kommrusch , Martin Monperrus

Users around the world rely on software-intensive systems in their day-to-day activities. These systems regularly contain bugs and security vulnerabilities. To facilitate bug fixing, data-driven models of automatic program repair use pairs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Anastasiia Grishina

The increasing prevalence of software vulnerabilities highlights the need for effective Automatic Vulnerability Repair (AVR) tools. While LLM-based approaches are promising, they struggle to incorporate structured security knowledge from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jia Li , Zhuangbin Chen , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

Various approaches are proposed to help under-resourced security researchers to detect and analyze software vulnerabilities. It is still incredibly time-consuming and labor-intensive for security researchers to fix vulnerabilities. The time…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Bowen Yu , Weisong Sun , Tongke Zhang , Zhenyu Chen

Software vulnerabilities affect all businesses and research is being done to avoid, detect or repair them. In this article, we contribute a new technique for automatic vulnerability fixing. We present a system that uses the rich software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Zimin Chen , Steve Kommrusch , Martin Monperrus

Data-driven research on the automated discovery and repair of security vulnerabilities in source code requires comprehensive datasets of real-life vulnerable code and their fixes. To assist in such research, we propose a method to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Guru Prasad Bhandari , Amara Naseer , Leon Moonen

With the rapid development and large-scale popularity of program software, modern society increasingly relies on software systems. However, the problems exposed by software have also come to the fore. Software defect has become an important…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Kai Huang , Zhengzi Xu , Su Yang , Hongyu Sun , Xuejun Li , Zheng Yan , Yuqing Zhang

Software vulnerabilities can pose severe harms to a computing system. They can lead to system crash, privacy leakage, or even physical damage. Correctly identifying vulnerabilities among enormous software codes in a timely manner is so far…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Jin Wang , Hui Xiao , Shuwen Zhong , Yinhao Xiao

Software vulnerabilities in source code pose serious cybersecurity risks, prompting a shift from traditional detection methods (e.g., static analysis, rule-based matching) to AI-driven approaches. This study presents a systematic review of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Samiha Shimmi , Hamed Okhravi , Mona Rahimi

Software plays a crucial role in our daily lives, and therefore the quality and security of software systems have become increasingly important. However, vulnerabilities in software still pose a significant threat, as they can have serious…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Chaozheng Wang , Zongjie Li , Yun Peng , Shuzheng Gao , Sirong Chen , Shuai Wang , Cuiyun Gao , Michael R. Lyu

Automated program repair is an emerging technology which consists of a suite of techniques to automatically fix bugs or vulnerabilities in programs. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of the state of the art in program repair.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Xiang Gao , Yannic Noller , Abhik Roychoudhury

The exponential increase in software vulnerabilities has created an urgent need for automatic vulnerability repair (AVR) solutions. Recent research has formulated AVR as a sequence generation problem and has leveraged large language models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Xin-Cheng Wen , Zirui Lin , Yijun Yang , Cuiyun Gao , Deheng Ye

The increasing complexity of software has led to the steady growth of vulnerabilities. Vulnerability repair investigates how to fix software vulnerabilities. Manual vulnerability repair is labor-intensive and time-consuming because it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yiwei Hu , Zhen Li , Kedie Shu , Shenghua Guan , Deqing Zou , Shouhuai Xu , Bin Yuan , Hai Jin

Preventing vulnerability exploits is a critical software maintenance task, and software engineers often rely on Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVEs) reports for information about vulnerable systems and libraries. These reports include…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Danielle Gonzalez , Holly Hastings , Mehdi Mirakhorli

Software vulnerabilities have been continually disclosed and documented. An important practice in documenting vulnerabilities is to describe the key vulnerability aspects, such as vulnerability type, root cause, affected product, impact,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Hao Guo , Zhenchang Xing , Xiaohong Li

Software vulnerabilities pose significant security threats, requiring effective mitigation. While Automated Program Repair (APR) has advanced in fixing general bugs, vulnerability patching, a security-critical aspect of APR remains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Zanis Ali Khan , Aayush Garg , Qiang Tang

Deep learning models have made significant progress in automatic program repair. However, the black-box nature of these methods has restricted their practical applications. To address this challenge, this paper presents an interpretable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jianzong Wang , Shijing Si , Zhitao Zhu , Xiaoyang Qu , Zhenhou Hong , Jing Xiao

As software vulnerabilities increase in both volume and complexity, vendors often struggle to repair them promptly. Automated vulnerability repair has emerged as a promising solution to reduce the burden of manual debugging and fixing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Bo Lin , Shangwen Wang , Liqian Chen , Xiaoguang Mao

Weaknesses in computer systems such as faults, bugs and errors in the architecture, design or implementation of software provide vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers to compromise the security of a system. Common Weakness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Siddhartha Shankar Das , Edoardo Serra , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Alex Pothen , Ehab Al-Shaer

Software vulnerabilities continue to be ubiquitous, even in the era of AI-powered code assistants, advanced static analysis tools, and the adoption of extensive testing frameworks. It has become apparent that we must not simply prevent…

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