Keeping open-source software (OSS) up to date is one potential solution to prevent known vulnerabilities. However, it requires frequent and costly testing and may introduce compatibility issues. Consequently, developers often choose to backport security ...

Given the widespread use of Python and its sustaining impact, the security and reliability of the Python runtime system is highly and broadly critical. Yet with real-world bugs in Python runtimes being continuously and increasingly reported, technique/...

The complex optimizations supported by modern compilers allow for compiler provenance recovery at many levels. For instance, it is possible to identify the compiler family and optimization level used when building a binary, as well as the individual ...

Progress has recently been made on specifying instruction set architectures (ISAs) in executable formalisms rather than through prose. However, to date, those formal specifications are limited to the functional aspects of the ISA and do not cover its ...