Harnessing Large Language Models for Software Vulnerability Detection: A Comprehensive Benchmarking Study

K Tamberg, H Bahsi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.15614, 2024 - arxiv.org
Despite various approaches being employed to detect vulnerabilities, the number of
reported vulnerabilities shows an upward trend over the years. This suggests the problems …

Towards Effectively Detecting and Explaining Vulnerabilities Using Large Language Models

Q Mao, Z Li, X Hu, K Liu, X Xia, J Sun - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.09701, 2024 - arxiv.org
Software vulnerabilities pose significant risks to the security and integrity of software
systems. Prior studies have proposed a series of approaches to vulnerability detection using …

Can large language models find and fix vulnerable software?

D Noever - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.10345, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this study, we evaluated the capability of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly
OpenAI's GPT-4, in detecting software vulnerabilities, comparing their performance against …

VulDetectBench: Evaluating the Deep Capability of Vulnerability Detection with Large Language Models

Y Liu, L Gao, M Yang, Y Xie, P Chen, X Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) have training corpora containing large amounts of program
code, greatly improving the model's code comprehension and generation capabilities …

Understanding the effectiveness of large language models in detecting security vulnerabilities

A Khare, S Dutta, Z Li, A Solko-Breslin, R Alur… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Security vulnerabilities in modern software are prevalent and harmful. While automated
vulnerability detection tools have made promising progress, their scalability and applicability …

Multi-role Consensus through LLMs Discussions for Vulnerability Detection

Z Mao, J Li, M Li, K Tei - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.14274, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have highlighted the potential for
vulnerability detection, a crucial component of software quality assurance. Despite this …

DLAP: A Deep Learning Augmented Large Language Model Prompting Framework for Software Vulnerability Detection

Y Yang, X Zhou, R Mao, J Xu, L Yang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Software vulnerability detection is generally supported by automated static analysis tools,
which have recently been reinforced by deep learning (DL) models. However, despite the …

Securefalcon: The next cyber reasoning system for cyber security

MA Ferrag, A Battah, N Tihanyi, M Debbah… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Software vulnerabilities leading to various detriments such as crashes, data loss, and
security breaches, significantly hinder the quality, affecting the market adoption of software …

GRACE: Empowering LLM-based software vulnerability detection with graph structure and in-context learning

G Lu, X Ju, X Chen, W Pei, Z Cai - Journal of Systems and Software, 2024 - Elsevier
Software vulnerabilities inflict considerable economic and societal harm. Therefore, timely
and accurate detection of these flaws has become vital. Large language models (LLMs) …

Using large language models to better detect and handle software vulnerabilities and cyber security threats

SM Taghavi, F Feyzi - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools in the domain of
software vulnerability and cybersecurity tasks, offering promising capabilities in detecting …