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Software vulnerabilities exist in open-source software (OSS), and the developers who discover these vulnerabilities may submit issue reports (IRs) to describe their details. Security practitioners need to spend a lot of time manually…

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Third-party libraries are essential in software development as they prevent the need for developers to recreate existing functionalities. However, vulnerabilities within these libraries pose significant risks to dependent projects.…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in automated software security, particularly in vulnerability detection. However, existing benchmarks primarily focus on isolated, single-vulnerability samples or…

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