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Logical vulnerabilities in software stem from flaws in program logic rather than memory safety, which can lead to critical security failures. Although existing automated program repair techniques primarily focus on repairing memory…

Memory safety errors continue to pose a significant threat to current computing systems, and graphics processing units (GPUs) are no exception. A prominent class of memory safety algorithms is allocation-based solutions. The key idea is to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Mohamed Tarek Ibn Ziad , Sana Damani , Mark Stephenson , Stephen W. Keckler , Aamer Jaleel

Side-channel attacks exploit unintended information leakage from system behavior and continue to pose serious privacy risks in modern platforms. Despite extensive prior work, side-channel analysis remains largely manual and fragmented,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhen Xu , Zihao Wang , Yuhua Sun , XiaoFeng Wang

Increasing numbers of software vulnerabilities are discovered every year whether they are reported publicly or discovered internally in proprietary code. These vulnerabilities can pose serious risk of exploit and result in system…

Intel SGX (Software Guard Extension) is a promising TEE (trusted execution environment) technique that can protect programs running in user space from being maliciously accessed by the host operating system. Although it provides hardware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yang Chen , Jianfeng Jiang , Shoumeng Yan , Hui Xu

In recent years, insider threats and attacks have been increasing in terms of frequency and cost to the corporate business. The utilization of end-to-end encrypted instant messaging applications (WhatsApp, Telegram, VPN) by malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Janardhan Kalikiri , Gaurav Varshney , Jaswinder Kour , Tarandeep Singh

Currently, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are becoming increasingly popular to facilitate data transfer in a variety of mobile applications. These APIs often process sensitive user information through their endpoints, which are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Nate Haris , Kendree Chen , Ann Song , Benjamin Pou

Recent advancements in generative AI have led to the widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) in software engineering, addressing numerous long-standing challenges. However, a comprehensive study examining the capabilities of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ting Zhang , Chengran Yang , Yindu Su , Martin Weyssow , Hung Nguyen , Tan Bui , Hong Jin Kang , Yikun Li , Eng Lieh Ouh , Lwin Khin Shar , David Lo

Each year, thousands of software vulnerabilities are discovered and reported to the public. Unpatched known vulnerabilities are a significant security risk. It is imperative that software vendors quickly provide patches once vulnerabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Benjamin L. Bullough , Anna K. Yanchenko , Christopher L. Smith , Joseph R. Zipkin

Computer-use agents are increasingly capable of operating on real operating systems, but this capability has also increased the risks posed by prompt injection, indirect instructions, and visual attacks. Existing defenses typically rely on…

Computation · Statistics 2026-05-14 Kebin Contreras , Carlos Hinojosa , Jorge Bacca , Bernard Ghanem

With an increasing number of value-flow properties to check, existing static program analysis still tends to have scalability issues when high precision is required. We observe that the key design flaw behind the scalability problem is that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Qingkai Shi , Rongxin Wu , Gang Fan , Charles Zhang

Language models (LMs) may memorize personally identifiable information (PII) from training data, enabling adversaries to extract it during inference. Existing defense mechanisms such as differential privacy (DP) reduce this leakage, but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Anthony Hughes , Vasisht Duddu , N. Asokan , Nikolaos Aletras , Ning Ma

The next generation of AI systems requires strong safety guarantees. This report looks at the software implementation of neural networks and related memory safety properties, including NULL pointer deference, out-of-bound access,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Yiannis Charalambous , Edoardo Manino , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Data leakage is a well-known problem in machine learning. Data leakage occurs when information from outside the training dataset is used to create a model. This phenomenon renders a model excessively optimistic or even useless in the real…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Filip Drobnjaković , Pavle Subotić , Caterina Urban

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional coding capability. However, as another critical component of programming proficiency, the debugging capability of LLMs remains relatively unexplored. Previous evaluations of LLMs'…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Runchu Tian , Yining Ye , Yujia Qin , Xin Cong , Yankai Lin , Yinxu Pan , Yesai Wu , Haotian Hui , Weichuan Liu , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Graph topology is a fundamental determinant of memory leakage in multi-agent LLM systems, yet its effects remain poorly quantified. We introduce MAMA (Multi-Agent Memory Attack), a framework that measures how network structure shapes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jinbo Liu , Defu Cao , Yifei Wei , Tianyao Su , Yuan Liang , Yushun Dong , Yan Liu , Yue Zhao , Xiyang Hu

Logging code plays an important role in software systems by recording key events and behaviors, which are essential for debugging and monitoring. However, insecure logging practices can inadvertently expose sensitive information or enable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 He Yang Yuan , Xin Wang , Kundi Yao , An Ran Chen , Zishuo Ding , Zhenhao Li

Quantum computers require high fidelity quantum gates. These gates are obtained by routine calibration tasks that eat into the availability of cloud-based devices. Restless circuit execution speeds-up characterization and calibration by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Conrad J. Haupt , Daniel J. Egger

Debugging denotes the process of detecting root causes of unexpected observable behaviors in programs, such as a program crash, an unexpected output value being produced or an assertion violation. Debugging of program errors is a difficult…

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