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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…

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The prevalent usage of open-source software (OSS) has led to an increased interest in resolving potential third-party security risks by fixing common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs). However, even with automated code analysis tools in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Frederik L. Dennig , Eren Cakmak , Henrik Plate , Daniel A. Keim

Open-source software (OSS) has experienced a surge in popularity, attributed to its collaborative development model and cost-effective nature. However, the adoption of specific software versions in development projects may introduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yiran Cheng , Ting Zhang , Lwin Khin Shar , Shouguo Yang , Chaopeng Dong , David Lo , Shichao Lv , Zhiqiang Shi , Limin Sun

The use of open-source software (OSS) is ever-increasing, and so is the number of open-source vulnerabilities being discovered and publicly disclosed. The gains obtained from the reuse of community-developed libraries may be offset by the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Serena E. Ponta , Henrik Plate , Antonino Sabetta

Vulnerabilities in open-source operating systems (OSs) pose substantial security risks to software systems, making their detection crucial. While fuzzing has been an effective vulnerability detection technique in various domains, OS fuzzing…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kun Hu , Qicai Chen , Wenzhuo Zhang , Zilong Lu , Bihuan Chen , You Lu , Haowen Jiang , Bingkun Sun , Xin Peng , Wenyun Zhao

Software applications integrate more and more open-source software (OSS) to benefit from code reuse. As a drawback, each vulnerability discovered in bundled OSS potentially affects the application. Upon the disclosure of every new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Henrik Plate , Serena Elisa Ponta , Antonino Sabetta

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

Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) enables large-scale reuse of preexisting software components. The main drawback is increased complexity in software supply chain management. A common approach to tame such complexity is automated open source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Daniele Serafini , Stefano Zacchiroli

Timely resolution and disclosure of vulnerabilities are essential for maintaining the security of open-source software. However, many vulnerabilities remain unreported, unpatched, or undisclosed for extended periods, exposing users to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Arjun Sridharkumar , Sara Al Hajj Ibrahim , Jiayuan Zhou , Yuliang Wang , Safwat Hassan , Ahmed E. Hassan , Shurui Zhou

Many tools and libraries are readily available to build and operate distributed Web applications. While the setup of operational environments is comparatively easy, practice shows that their continuous secure operation is more difficult to…

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Cryptocurrencies have become very popular in recent years. Thousands of new cryptocurrencies have emerged, proposing new and novel techniques that improve on Bitcoin's core innovation of the blockchain data structure and consensus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Qingze Hum , Wei Jin Tan , Shi Ying Tey , Latasha Lenus , Ivan Homoliak , Yun Lin , Jun Sun

Open-source software (OSS) greatly facilitates program development for developers. However, the high number of vulnerabilities in open-source software is a major concern, including in Golang, a relatively new programming language. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Jinchang Hu , Lyuye Zhang , Chengwei Liu , Sen Yang , Song Huang , Yang Liu

The absolute majority of software today is developed collaboratively using collaborative version control tools such as Git. It is a common practice that once a vulnerability is detected and fixed, the developers behind the software issue a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Nitzan Farhi , Noam Koenigstein , Yuval Shavitt

The utilization of third-party open-source libraries is widespread in modern software development. Due to the dependency relationships, vulnerabilities within open-source libraries pose significant security threats to downstream software.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Liyou Chen , Hailong Sun , Xiang Gao , Lin Shi , Yixin Yang , Yi Xu

Version control systems are commonly used to manage open-source software, in which each commit may introduce new vulnerabilities or fix existing ones. Researchers have developed various tools for detecting vulnerabilities in code commits,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Zhaonan Wu , Yanjie Zhao , Chen Wei , Zirui Wan , Yue Liu , Haoyu Wang

Open-source software vulnerability patch detection is a critical component for maintaining software security and ensuring software supply chain integrity. Traditional manual detection methods face significant scalability challenges when…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haoran Xu , Chen Zhi , Junxiao Han , Xinkui Zhao , Jianwei Yin , Shuiguang Deng

This research introduces graph analysis methods and a modified Graph Attention Convolutional Neural Network (GAT) to the critical challenge of open source package vulnerability remediation by analyzing control flow graphs to profile…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Fernando Vera , Palina Pauliuchenka , Ethan Oh , Bai Chien Kao , Louis DiValentin , David A. Bader

The wide success of Bitcoin has led to a huge surge of alternative cryptocurrencies (altcoins). Most altcoins essentially fork Bitcoin's code with minor modifications, such as the number of coins to be minted, the block size, and the block…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Sebastien Andreina , Lorenzo Alluminio , Giorgia Azzurra Marson , Ghassan Karame

In the world of open-source software (OSS), the number of known vulnerabilities has tremendously increased. The GitHub Advisory Database contains advisories for security risks in GitHub-hosted OSS projects. As of 09/25/2023, there are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Jessy Ayala , Yu-Jye Tung , Joshua Garcia

Clone-and-own approach is a natural way of source code reuse for software developers. To assess how known bugs and security vulnerabilities of a cloned component affect an application, developers and security analysts need to identify an…

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