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Poster

Suitable is the Best: Task-oriented Knowledge Fusion in Vulnerability Detection

Jingjing Wang · Minhuan Huang · yuanping nie · Xiang Li · Qianjin Du · Wei Kong · Huan Deng · Xiaohui Kuang

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Wed 11 Dec 4:30 p.m. PST — 7:30 p.m. PST

Abstract:

Deep learning technologies have demonstrated remarkable performance in vulnerability detection. Existing works primarily adopt a uniform and consistent feature learning pattern across the entire target set. While designed for general-purpose detection tasks, they lack sensitivity towards target code comprising multiple functional modules or diverse vulnerability subtypes. In this paper, we present a knowledge fusion-based vulnerability detection method (KF-GVD) that integrates specific vulnerability knowledge into the Graph Neural Network feature learning process. KF-GVD achieves accurate vulnerability detection across different functional modules of the Linux kernel and vulnerability subtypes without compromising general task performance. Extensive experiments demonstrate that KF-GVD outperforms SOTAs on function-level and statement-level vulnerability detection across various target tasks, with an average increase of 40.9% in precision and 26.1% in recall. Notably, KF-GVD discovered 9 undisclosed vulnerabilities when employing on C/C++ open-source projects without ground truth.

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