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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,…

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In software, a vulnerability is a defect in a program that attackers might utilize to acquire unauthorized access, alter system functions, and acquire information. These vulnerabilities arise from programming faults, design flaws, incorrect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Md. Fahim Sultan , Tasmin Karim , Md. Shazzad Hossain Shaon , Mohammad Wardat , Mst Shapna Akter

Open-source software supply chain security relies heavily on assessing affected versions of library vulnerabilities. While prior studies have leveraged exploits for verifying vulnerability affected versions, they point out a key limitation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zirui Chen , Qi Zhan , Jiayuan Zhou , Xing Hu , Xin Xia , Xiaohu Yang

This paper presents a comprehensive empirical analysis of security vulnerabilities in AI-generated code across public GitHub repositories. We collected and analyzed 7,703 files explicitly attributed to four major AI tools: ChatGPT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Maximilian Schreiber , Pascal Tippe

Deep learning has been shown to be a promising tool in detecting software vulnerabilities. In this work, we train neural networks with program slices extracted from the source code of C/C++ programs to detect software vulnerabilities. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Zhen Huang , Amy Aumpansub

To help prevent hardware security vulnerabilities from propagating to later design stages where fixes are costly, it is crucial to identify security concerns as early as possible, such as in RTL designs. In this work, we investigate the…

The short note presents an image classification dataset consisting of 10 executable code varieties and approximately 50,000 virus examples. The malicious classes include 9 families of computer viruses and one benign set. The image…

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Configuring the Linux kernel to meet specific requirements, such as binary size, is highly challenging due to its immense complexity-with over 15,000 interdependent options evolving rapidly across different versions. Although several…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Heraldo Borges , Juliana Alves Pereira , Djamel Eddine Khelladi , Mathieu Acher

Applications depend on libraries to avoid reinventing the wheel. Libraries may have incompatible changes during evolving. As a result, applications will suffer from compatibility failures. There has been much research on addressing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Zhouyang Jia , Shanshan Li , Tingting Yu , Chen Zeng , Erci Xu , Xiaodong Liu , Ji Wang , Xiangke Liao

The deep learning approach to detecting malicious software (malware) is promising but has yet to tackle the problem of dataset shift, namely that the joint distribution of examples and their labels associated with the test set is different…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Deqiang Li , Tian Qiu , Shuo Chen , Qianmu Li , Shouhuai Xu

Context: The IoT system infrastructure platform facility vulnerability attack has become the main battlefield of network security attacks. Most of the traditional vulnerability mining methods rely on vulnerability detection tools to realize…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Wen Zhou

While third-party libraries are extensively reused to enhance productivity during software development, they can also introduce potential security risks such as vulnerability propagation. Software composition analysis, proposed to identify…

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Exploits are commonly used to demonstrate the presence of library vulnerabilities and validate their impact across different versions. However, their direct application to alternative versions often fails due to breaking changes introduced…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zirui Chen , Zhipeng Xue , Jiayuan Zhou , Xing Hu , Xin Xia , Xiaohu Yang

Long contexts of recent LLMs have enabled a new use case: asking models to find security vulnerabilities in entire codebases. To evaluate model performance on this task, we introduce eyeballvul: a benchmark designed to test the…

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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

Vulnerabilities in software libraries and reusable components cause major security challenges, particularly in dependency-heavy ecosystems such as Maven. This paper presents a large-scale analysis of vulnerabilities in the Maven ecosystem…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Md Fazle Rabbi , Rajshakhar Paul , Arifa Islam Champa , Minhaz F. Zibran

Fault-detection, localization, and repair methods are vital to software quality; but it is difficult to evaluate their generality, applicability, and current effectiveness. Large, diverse, realistic datasets of durably-reproducible faults…

When a software transformation or software security task needs to analyze a given program binary, the first step is often disassembly. Since many modern disassemblers have become highly accurate on many binaries, we believe reliable…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Kaiyuan Li , Maverick Woo , Limin Jia

Retrieving binary code via natural language queries is a pivotal capability for downstream tasks in the software security domain, such as vulnerability detection and malware analysis. However, it is challenging to identify binary functions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Guoqiang Chen , Lingyun Ying , Ziyang Song , Daguang Liu , Qiang Wang , Zhiqi Wang , Li Hu , Shaoyin Cheng , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu