LLM vulnerability auditors defer more to false assurances than false alarms
Across 16,572 audits of PrimeVul pairs, true static-analysis notes barely helped, while fabricated assurances cut real-bug detection by up to 19 points.
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Across 16,572 audits of PrimeVul pairs, true static-analysis notes barely helped, while fabricated assurances cut real-bug detection by up to 19 points.
Specialized agents re-localize from failed patches and reject symptom-only fixes on real C/C++ bugs.
The selected set holds 61 million fingerprinting functions and is reported to improve recall 22.65% over prior tools.
On 187 labeled reports it rejected 89 of 97 false alarms and kept 85 of 90 real defects.

GitHub Security Lab's Taskflow Agent autonomously fuzzes C/C++ repositories with AFL++ and writes vulnerability reports.
TraceVIC ranks vulnerability-inducing commits by reasoning over how vulnerable code evolves across revisions.

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth researchers present VulStyle, a stylometry-based vulnerability detector that also exposes benchmark reliability problems.
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