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Vulnerability discovery and exploits detection are two wide areas of study in software engineering. This preliminary work tries to combine existing methods with machine learning techniques to define a metric classification of vulnerable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Gabriele Modena

Program or process is an integral part of almost every IT/OT system. Can we trust the identity/ID (e.g., executable name) of the program? To avoid detection, malware may disguise itself using the ID of a legitimate program, and a system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Shen Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Ding Li , Lu-An Tang , Jingchao Ni , Zhichun Li , Junghwan Rhee , Haifeng Chen , Philip S. Yu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a popular choice in vulnerability detection studies given their foundational capabilities, open source availability, and variety of models, but have limited scalability due to extensive compute…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Miles Farmer , Ekincan Ufuktepe , Anne Watson , Hialo Muniz Carvalho , Vadim Okun , Zineb Maasaoui , Kannappan Palaniappan

Software projects are dependent on many third-party libraries, therefore high-risk vulnerabilities can propagate through the dependency chain to downstream projects. Owing to the subjective nature of patch management, software vendors…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Mei Han , Lulu Wang , Jianming Chang , Bixin Li , Chunguang Zhang

This study explores the effectiveness of graph neural networks (GNNs) for vulnerability detection in software code, utilizing a real-world dataset of Java vulnerability-fixing commits. The dataset's structure, based on the number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Ravil Mussabayev

Thousands of security vulnerabilities are discovered in production software each year, either reported publicly to the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database or discovered internally in proprietary code. Vulnerabilities often…

In the age of big data and machine learning, at a time when the techniques and methods of software development are evolving rapidly, a problem has arisen: programmers can no longer detect all the security flaws and vulnerabilities in their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Amirreza Bagheri , Péter Hegedűs

Application security is an essential part of developing modern software, as lots of attacks depend on vulnerabilities in software. The number of attacks is increasing globally due to technological advancements. Companies must include…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Mohamed Mjd Alhafi , Mohammad Hammade , Khloud Al Jallad

Existing defects in software components is unavoidable and leads to not only a waste of time and money but also many serious consequences. To build predictive models, previous studies focus on manually extracting features or using tree…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Anh Viet Phan , Minh Le Nguyen , Lam Thu Bui

Mainstream software applications and tools are the configurable platforms with an enormous number of parameters along with their values. Certain settings and possible interactions between these parameters may harden (or soften) the security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Shuvalaxmi Dass , Akbar Siami Namin

Tackling binary program analysis problems has traditionally implied manually defining rules and heuristics, a tedious and time-consuming task for human analysts. In order to improve automation and scalability, we propose an alternative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Shushan Arakelyan , Sima Arasteh , Christophe Hauser , Erik Kline , Aram Galstyan

Software systems can be represented as graphs, capturing dependencies among functions and processes. An interesting aspect of software systems is that they can be represented as different types of graphs, depending on the extraction goals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kartikeya Aneja , Nagender Aneja , Murat Kantarcioglu

Following the rapidly growing digital image usage, automatic image categorization has become preeminent research area. It has broaden and adopted many algorithms from time to time, whereby multi-feature (generally, hand-engineered features)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Thangarajah Akilan , Q. M. Jonathan Wu , Wei Jiang

We explore the use of multiple deep learning models for detecting flaws in software programs. Current, standard approaches for flaw detection rely on a single representation of a software program (e.g., source code or a program binary). We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Scott Heidbrink , Kathryn N. Rodhouse , Daniel M. Dunlavy

Program similarity is a fundamental concept, central to the solution of software engineering tasks such as software plagiarism, clone identification, code refactoring and code search. Accurate similarity estimation between programs requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Aravind Nair , Avijit Roy , Karl Meinke

With the continuous extension of the Industrial Internet, cyber incidents caused by software vulnerabilities have been increasing in recent years. However, software vulnerabilities detection is still heavily relying on code review done by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Li Zhou , Minhuan Huang , Yujun Li , Yuanping Nie , Jin Li , Yiwei Liu

Vulnerability detection is crucial to protect software security. Nowadays, deep learning (DL) is the most promising technique to automate this detection task, leveraging its superior ability to extract patterns and representations within…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yuejun Guo , Qiang Hu , Qiang Tang , Yves Le Traon

The growth of open-source software has increased the risk of hidden vulnerabilities that can affect downstream software applications. This concern is further exacerbated by software vendors' practice of silently releasing security patches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Xunzhu Tang , zhenghan Chen , Saad Ezzini , Haoye Tian , Yewei Song , Jacques Klein , Tegawende F. Bissyande

Modern software systems are developed in diverse programming languages and often harbor critical vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit to compromise security. These vulnerabilities have been actively targeted in real-world attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zhuoyun Qian , Fangtian Zhong , Qin Hu , Yili Jiang , Jiaqi Huang , Mengfei Ren , Jiguo Yu

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