3 papers
cs.CR2026
GitHub Engagement Signals for CVE Prioritization: The GitHub Popularity Metric (GPM)
Jafar Akhoundali, Kristian Rietveld, Olga Gadyatskaya
Attackers can compromise multiple systems with a single vulnerability, while defenders need to fix all security weaknesses in their systems. This asymmetry puts defenders at a disa…
cs.CR2025
Eradicating the Unseen: Detecting, Exploiting, and Remediating a Path Traversal Vulnerability across GitHub
Jafar Akhoundali, Hamidreza Hamidi, Kristian Rietveld +1
Vulnerabilities in open-source software can cause cascading effects in the modern digital ecosystem. It is especially worrying if these vulnerabilities repeat across many projects,…
cs.PF2024
Multi-Strided Access Patterns to Boost Hardware Prefetching
Miguel O. Blom, Kristian F. D. Rietveld, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort
Important memory-bound kernels, such as linear algebra, convolutions, and stencils, rely on SIMD instructions as well as optimizations targeting improved vectorized data traversal…