4 papers
Careful About What App Promotion Ads Recommend! Detecting and Explaining Malware Promotion via App Promotion Graph
Shang Ma, Chaoran Chen, Shao Yang +5
In Android apps, their developers frequently place app promotion ads, namely advertisements to promote other apps. Unfortunately, the inadequate vetting of ad content allows malici…
CompVPD: Iteratively Identifying Vulnerability Patches Based on Human Validation Results with a Precise Context
Tianyu Chen, Lin Li, Taotao Qian +6
Applying security patches in open source software timely is critical for ensuring the security of downstream applications. However, it is challenging to apply these patches promptl…
VulLibGen: Generating Names of Vulnerability-Affected Packages via a Large Language Model
Tianyu Chen, Lin Li, Liuchuan Zhu +5
Security practitioners maintain vulnerability reports (e.g., GitHub Advisory) to help developers mitigate security risks. An important task for these databases is automatically ext…
Identifying Vulnerable Third-Party Java Libraries from Textual Descriptions of Vulnerabilities and Libraries
Tianyu Chen, Lin Li, Bingjie Shan +4
To address security vulnerabilities arising from third-party libraries, security researchers maintain databases monitoring and curating vulnerability reports. Application developer…