ASE 2024
Sun 27 October - Fri 1 November 2024 Sacramento, California, United States
Tue 29 Oct 2024 10:45 - 11:00 at Gardenia - Vulnerability and security1 Chair(s): Curtis Atkisson

Deep Learning (DL) has emerged as a promising means for vulnerability detection due to its ability to automatically derive features from vulnerable code. Unfortunately, current solutions struggle to focus on vulnerability-related parts of vulnerable functions, and tend to exploit spurious correlations for prediction, thus undermining their effectiveness in practice. In this paper, we propose Snopy, a novel DL-based approach, which bridges sample denoising with causal graph learning to capture real vulnerability patterns from vulnerable samples with numerous noise for effective detection. Specifically, Snopy adopts a change-based sample denoising approach to automatically weed out vulnerability-irrelevant code elements in the vulnerable functions without sacrificing the label accuracy. Then, Snopy constructs a novel Causality-Aware Graph Neural Network (CA-GNN) with Feature Caching Scheme (FCS) to learn causal vulnerability features while maintaining efficiency. Experiments on the three public benchmark datasets show that Snopy outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines by an average of 27.22%, 85.89%, and 75.50% in terms of F1-score, respectively.

Tue 29 Oct

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10:30 - 12:00
Vulnerability and security1Research Papers / Tool Demonstrations at Gardenia
Chair(s): Curtis Atkisson UW
10:30
15m
Talk
REACT: IR-Level Patch Presence Test for Binary
Research Papers
Qi Zhan Zhejiang University, Xing Hu Zhejiang University, Xin Xia Huawei, Shanping Li Zhejiang University
10:45
15m
Talk
Snopy: Bridging Sample Denoising with Causal Graph Learning for Effective Vulnerability Detection
Research Papers
Sicong Cao Yangzhou University, Xiaobing Sun Yangzhou University, Xiaoxue Wu Yangzhou University, David Lo Singapore Management University, Lili Bo Yangzhou University, Bin Li Yangzhou University, Xiaolei Liu China Academy of Engineering Physics, Xingwei Lin Zhejiang University, Wei Liu Nanjing University
Media Attached
11:00
15m
Talk
Unveiling the Characteristics and Impact of Security Patch Evolution
Research Papers
Zifan Xie Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Ming Wen Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Zichao Wei Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hai Jin Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Media Attached
11:15
15m
Talk
Compositional Security Analysis of Dynamic Component-based Systems
Research Papers
Narges Khakpour Newcastle University, UK, Charilaos Skandylas Linnaeus University
11:30
15m
Talk
Vision: Identifying Affected Library Versions for Open Source Software Vulnerabilities
Research Papers
Susheng Wu Fudan University, Ruisi Wang Fudan University, Kaifeng Huang Tongji University, Yiheng Cao Fudan University, Wenyan Song Fudan University, Zhuotong Zhou Fudan University, China, Yiheng Huang Fudan University, Bihuan Chen Fudan University, Xin Peng Fudan University
Media Attached
11:45
10m
Talk
VulZoo: A Comprehensive Vulnerability Intelligence Dataset
Tool Demonstrations
Bonan Ruan National University of Singapore, Jiahao Liu National University of Singapore, Weibo Zhao National University of Singapore, Zhenkai Liang National University of Singapore