Software Vulnerability Discovery

Software Vulnerability Discovery is the systematic process of identifying previously unknown flaws or weaknesses in software systems that could be exploited to compromise security, distinguished from related analysis activities by its focus on the initial detection and characterization of such vulnerabilities prior to disclosure or remediation.

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113.8K

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Authors

1.2K

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Publications per year

2017–2026

1.2K

Parents

Vulnerability Analysis

Children

Automated Vulnerability DetectionBinary AnalysisBuffer Overflow DetectionConcolic ExecutionCoverage-guided FuzzingCross-site Scripting DetectionDeep Learning For Vulnerability DetectionExploit Primitives IdentificationGraph-based Vulnerability DetectionHybrid Vulnerability Analysis

Publications

Diglossia

Charles A. Ferguson · WORD · 1959 · 2.9K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Cybersecurity +13

Dynamic Taint Analysis for Automatic Detection, Analysis, and Signature Generation of Exploits on Commodity Software

James Newsome, Dawn Song · Figshare · 2018 · 1.3K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Cybersecurity +15

Automated Whitebox Fuzz Testing.

Patrice Godefroid, Michael Y. Levin, David A. Molnar · 2008 · 1.1K citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +17

SOK: (State of) The Art of War: Offensive Techniques in Binary Analysis

Yan Shoshitaishvili, Ruoyu Wang, Christopher Salls et al. · 2016 · 911 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +12

Driller: Augmenting Fuzzing Through Selective Symbolic Execution

Nick Stephens, John Grosen, Christopher Salls et al. · 2016 · 876 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Cybersecurity +17

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Authors

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Yang Liu
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
40 publications · 2.5K citations
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Laurie Williams
North Carolina State University, United States
30 publications · 2.3K citations
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David Lo
Singapore Management University, Singapore
24 publications · 1.3K citations
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Yu Jiang
Tsinghua University, China
22 publications · 1K citations
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Yashwant K. Malaiya
Colorado State University, United States
20 publications · 1.2K citations
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IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
TSE · 43 publications · 3.2K citations
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arXiv (Cornell University)
Repository · 96 publications · 3.1K citations
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Computers & Security
45 publications · 1.8K citations
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Journal of Systems and Software
JSS · 38 publications · 1.7K citations
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IEEE Access
34 publications · 1.8K citations
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