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20242026
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5 papers

cs.CR2026

Dissecting the Black Box: Circuit-Level Analysis of LLM Vulnerability Detection

Syafiq Al Atiiq, Chun Zhou, Christian Gehrmann

Large language models (LLMs) can detect software vulnerabilities, but how do they actually identify vulnerable code? We address this question using mechanistic interpretability; an…

cs.CR2026

SAMSEM -- A Generic and Scalable Approach for IC Metal Line Segmentation

Christian Gehrmann, Jonas Ricker, Simon Damm +5

In light of globalized hardware supply chains, the assurance of hardware components has gained significant interest, particularly in cryptographic applications and high-stakes scen…

cs.CR2025

Lost in the Pages: WebAssembly Code Recovery through SEV-SNP's Exposed Address Space

Markus Berthilsson, Christian Gehrmann

WebAssembly (Wasm) has risen as a widely used technology to distribute computing workloads on different platforms. The platform independence offered through Wasm makes it an attrac…

cs.CR2024

Vulnerability Detection in Popular Programming Languages with Language Models

Syafiq Al Atiiq, Christian Gehrmann, Kevin Dahlén

Vulnerability detection is crucial for maintaining software security, and recent research has explored the use of Language Models (LMs) for this task. While LMs have shown promisin…

cs.CR2024

From Generalist to Specialist: Exploring CWE-Specific Vulnerability Detection

Syafiq Al Atiiq, Christian Gehrmann, Kevin Dahlén +1

Vulnerability Detection (VD) using machine learning faces a significant challenge: the vast diversity of vulnerability types. Each Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) represents a un…