arXiv:2605. 05000v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM agents have been increasingly adopted for solving security tasks.
By Hwiwon Lee, Jongseong Kim, Lingming Zhang
The paper investigates whether the hidden activations of large language models (LLMs) contain signals about the vulnerability of C/C++ code when the code is provided as context. By extracting prefill token activations from four LLMs and training small MLP probes, the authors achieve an average F1 score of 41.7% across four benchmarks, with the best probe matching state‑of‑the‑art fine‑tuned classifiers on the Devign dataset. The results suggest that a coding LLM’s internal representation can inform vulnerability detection, opening the door to lightweight, model‑native screening methods.
By Alizishaan Khatri
arXiv:2504. 20412v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fuzzing frameworks like syzkaller have uncovered thousands of Linux kernel crashes, many of which are critical and security-sensitive.
By Alex Mathai, Chenxi Huang, Suwei Ma, Jihwan Kim, Hailie Mitchell, Aleksandr Nogikh, Petros Maniatis, Franjo Ivan\v{c}i\'c, Junfeng Yang, Baishakhi Ray
The paper discusses a workflow for repairing decompiled C code that goes beyond mere recompilation. It uses compiler and linker diagnostics to guide initial repair, then applies smoke checks and official tests to ensure the recompiled binary behaves as expected. In a study of 104 Coreutils binaries, 87.5% successfully recompiled and passed the test gate, while a small portion failed to recompile or still failed tests.
By Yuhan Huang, Puzhuo Liu, Jianlei Chi
arXiv:2608. 02680v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using language-model agents repeatedly rediscover procedures they have already executed, producing traces that mix reusable structure with retries, exploration, accidental ordering, and repeated lookups.
By Salma El Yadouni (EPFL), Guanyi Li (Binome Technologies)
arXiv:2608. 13450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous vehicles depend on large safety-critical software stacks, where weaknesses reachable from adversarial inputs may affect steering, braking, or other control decisions.
By Md Wasiul Haque, Sagar Dasgupta, Mizanur Rahman, Md Rayhanur Rahman