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Third-party libraries (TPLs) are extensively utilized by developers to expedite the software development process and incorporate external functionalities. Nevertheless, insecure TPL reuse can lead to significant security risks. Existing…

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Third-party libraries (TPL) are becoming increasingly popular to achieve efficient and concise software development. However, unregulated use of TPL will introduce legal and security issues in software development. Consequently, some…

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Third-party libraries (TPLs) are reused frequently in software applications for reducing development cost. However, they could introduce security risks as well. Many TPL detection methods have been proposed to detect TPL reuse in Android…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Wei Tang , Yanlin Wang , Hongyu Zhang , Shi Han , Ping Luo , Dongmei Zhang

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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Much software, whether beneficent or malevolent, is distributed only as binaries, sans source code. Absent source code, understanding binaries' behavior can be quite challenging, especially when compiled under higher levels of compiler…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Toufique Ahmed , Premkumar Devanbu , Anand Ashok Sawant

Binary decompilation aims to recover binaries into high-level source code, but existing evaluations mainly rely on syntactic similarity or single-axis readability metrics, which fail to capture practical reusability. We propose a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Puzhuo Liu , Yuhan Huang , Jianlei Chi , Peng Di , Yu Jiang

Vulnerability prediction is valuable in identifying security issues efficiently, even though it requires the source code of the target software system, which is a restrictive hypothesis. This paper presents an experimental study to predict…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 D. Cotroneo , F. C. Grasso , R. Natella , V. Orbinato

With the rapid growth of software, using third-party libraries (TPLs) has become increasingly popular. The prosperity of the library usage has provided the software engineers with handful of methods to facilitate and boost the program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Can Yang , Zhengzi Xu , Hongxu Chen , Yang Liu , Xiaorui Gong , Baoxu Liu

Decompilation aims to transform a low-level program language (LPL) (eg., binary file) into its functionally-equivalent high-level program language (HPL) (e.g., C/C++). It is a core technology in software security, especially in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Ying Cao , Ruigang Liang , Kai Chen , Peiwei Hu

The prevalent use of third-party libraries (TPLs) in modern software development introduces significant security and compliance risks, necessitating the implementation of Software Composition Analysis (SCA) to manage these threats. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Lyuye Zhang , Chengwei Liu , Jiahui Wu , Shiyang Zhang , Chengyue Liu , Zhengzi Xu , Sen Chen , Yang Liu

Although iterative decoding of polar codes has recently made huge progress based on the idea of permuted factor graphs, it still suffers from a non-negligible performance degradation when compared to state-of-the-art CRC-aided successive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Marvin Geiselhart , Ahmed Elkelesh , Moustafa Ebada , Sebastian Cammerer , Stephan ten Brink

Recent advances in LLM-based decompilers have been shown effective to convert low-level binaries into human-readable source code. However, there still lacks a comprehensive benchmark that provides large-scale binary-source function pairs,…

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In software reverse engineering, decompilation is the process of recovering source code from binary files. Decompilers are used when it is necessary to understand or analyze software for which the source code is not available. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Javier Escalada , Ted Scully , Francisco Ortin

The software compilation process has a tendency to obscure the original design of the system and makes it difficult both to identify individual components and discern their purpose simply by examining the resulting binary code. Although…

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Decompilation is widely used in reverse engineering to recover high-level language code from binary executables. While recent approaches leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising progress, they typically treat assembly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yongpan Wang , Xin Xu , Xiaojie Zhu , Xiaodong Gu , Beijun Shen

As the first error correction codes provably achieving the symmetric capacity of binary-input discrete memory-less channels (B-DMCs), polar codes have been recently chosen by 3GPP for eMBB control channel. Among existing algorithms,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-19 Huayi Zhou , Xiao Liang , Liping Li , Zaichen Zhang , Xiaohu You , Chuan Zhang

Visual Programming Languages (VPLs), coupled with the high-level abstractions that are commonplace in visual programming environments, enable users with less technical knowledge to become proficient programmers. However, the lower skill…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Miguel Terra-Neves , João Nadkarni , Miguel Ventura , Pedro Resende , Hugo Veiga , António Alegria

Decompilation converts machine code into human-readable form, enabling analysis and debugging without source code. However, fidelity issues often degrade the readability and semantic accuracy of decompiled output. Existing methods, such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zhiping Zhou , Xiaohong Li , Ruitao Feng , Yao Zhang , Yuekang Li , Wenbu Feng , Yunqian Wang , Yuqing Li

Reverse engineering of binary executables is a critical problem in the computer security domain. On the one hand, malicious parties may recover interpretable source codes from the software products to gain commercial advantages. On the…

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Analyzing the behavior of cryptographic functions in stripped binaries is a challenging but essential task. Cryptographic algorithms exhibit greater logical complexity compared to typical code, yet their analysis is unavoidable in areas…

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