EASE 2026
Tue 9 - Fri 12 June 2026 Glasgow, United Kingdom
Thu 11 Jun 2026 13:45 - 14:00 at JMS 743 - Security 3 Chair(s): Márcio Ribeiro

Software vulnerabilities pose a substantial risk to the security and reliability of software. Automated static analysis tools are available; however, their adoption among developers is limited due to high false positive rates and low accuracy. While improving the accuracy of static analysis remains an ongoing challenge, there has been little focus on assessing how precisely warnings can localize actual patch. In this paper, we present novel measurements of the distances between the locations in source code reported by static analysis tools and the corresponding locations patched by real developers. We undertake a comprehensive exploratory analysis of real vulnerabilities and corresponding patches obtained from 243 open source projects on GitHub. We examine the disparity between the locations in source code reported by five popular static analyzers using different analysis mechanisms compared to the locations of source code patched by real developers. Notably, we observe that these distances exhibit varying distributions based on both the severity of the vulnerability and the specific analyzer methodology employed. Furthermore, we report correlations between our new distance metrics and the ease with which developers can identify vulnerabilities in software.

Thu 11 Jun

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13:30 - 15:00
Security 3Research Papers / AI Models / Data at JMS 743
Chair(s): Márcio Ribeiro Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil
13:30
15m
Talk
Vulnerability Detection with Interprocedural Context in Multiple Languages: Assessing Effectiveness and Cost of Modern LLMs
AI Models / Data
Kevin Lira North Carolina State University, Baldoino Fonseca Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Davy Baia Federal University of Alagoas, Márcio Ribeiro Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil, Wesley K.G. Assunção North Carolina State University
Pre-print
13:45
15m
Talk
Locating Software Vulnerabilities With Static Analyzers: How Far Are We?
Research Papers
Yueke Zhang Vanderbilt University, Zihan Fang Vanderbilt University, Kevin Leach Vanderbilt University, Yu Huang Vanderbilt University
14:00
15m
Talk
Mining the YARA Ecosystem: From Ad-Hoc Sharing to Data-Driven Threat IntelligenceBest Paper Award
Research Papers
Esteban Dectot-Le Monnier de Gouville Polytechnique Montréal, Mohammad Hamdaqa Polytechnique Montreal, Moataz Chouchen Concordia University
Pre-print