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AI agents reconstruct vulnerabilities from Linux and Windows binaries

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Researchers have developed agentic pipelines for vulnerability discovery in software binaries. Patch2Vuln focuses on Linux distribution binary patches, successfully identifying security-relevant functions in half of tested cases. SLYP, designed for Windows COM binaries, excels at finding race condition vulnerabilities and generating proof-of-concept code, discovering 28 new vulnerabilities with 16 CVEs assigned. AI

IMPACT These agentic systems demonstrate potential for automating and improving the efficiency of software security analysis and vulnerability discovery.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains two research papers detailing novel agentic pipelines for vulnerability discovery in software binaries.

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AI agents reconstruct vulnerabilities from Linux and Windows binaries

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COVERAGE [4]

  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Isaac David, Arthur Gervais ·

    Patch2Vuln: Agentic Reconstruction of Vulnerabilities from Linux Distribution Binary Patches

    arXiv:2605.06601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Security updates create a short but important window in which defenders and attackers can compare vulnerable and patched software. Yet in many operational settings, the most accessible artifacts are binary packages rather than sou…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Arthur Gervais ·

    Patch2Vuln: Agentic Reconstruction of Vulnerabilities from Linux Distribution Binary Patches

    Security updates create a short but important window in which defenders and attackers can compare vulnerable and patched software. Yet in many operational settings, the most accessible artifacts are binary packages rather than source patches or advisory text. This paper asks whet…

  3. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Hwiwon Lee, Jongseong Kim, Lingming Zhang ·

    Agentic Vulnerability Reasoning on Windows COM Binaries

    arXiv:2605.05000v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Windows Component Object Model (COM) services run with elevated privileges and are widely accessible to authenticated users, making race conditions in these binaries a critical surface for local privilege escalation. We present SL…

  4. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Lingming Zhang ·

    Agentic Vulnerability Reasoning on Windows COM Binaries

    Windows Component Object Model (COM) services run with elevated privileges and are widely accessible to authenticated users, making race conditions in these binaries a critical surface for local privilege escalation. We present SLYP, an end-to-end agentic pipeline that discovers …

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