Publications

Conference Papers

• USENIX Security 2025 DISPATCH: Unraveling Security Patches from Entangled Code Changes [paper]
  Shiyu Sun*, Yunlong Xing*, Xinda Wang, Shu Wang, Qi Li, and Kun Sun.
  In 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), Seattle, WA, 2025.
  (* indicates equal contribution)

• DIMVA 2025 An Empirical Study of Multi-Language Security Patches in Open Source Software [paper]
  Shiyu Sun, Yunlong Xing, Grant Zou, Xinda Wang, and Kun Sun.
  In 22nd Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA), Austria, 2025.
  (Acceptance Rate: 25/114 = 21.9%)

• USENIX Security 2024 What IF Is Not Enough? Fixing Null Pointer Dereference With Contextual Check [paper]
  Yunlong Xing, Shu Wang, Shiyu Sun, Xu He, Kun Sun, and Qi Li.
  In 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), Philadelphia, PA, 2024.
  (Acceptance Rate - Summer Review Cycle: 98/515 = 19.0%)
  🎖 Top 15 Finalists (among 194 submissions) of CSAW 2024 Applied Research Competition

• USENIX Security 2023 Cross Container Attacks: The Bewildered eBPF on Clouds [paper]
  Yi He*, Roland Guo*, Yunlong Xing, Xijia Che, Kun Sun, Zhuotao Liu, Ke Xu, and Qi Li.
  In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), Anaheim, CA, 2023.
  (Acceptance Rate - Fall Review Cycle: 155/531 = 29.2%)

• ICSME 2023 Exploring Security Commits in Python [paper]
  Shiyu Sun, Shu Wang, Xinda Wang, Yunlong Xing, Elisa Zhang, and Kun Sun.
  IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), Bogotá, Colombia, 2023.
  (Acceptance Rate: 27/119 = 22.7%)

• CNS 2022 SysCap: Profiling and Crosschecking Syscall and Capability Configurations for Docker Images [paper]
  Yunlong Xing, Jiahao Cao, Xinda Wang, Sadegh Torabi, Kun Sun, Fei Yan, and Qi Li.
  IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Austin, TX, 2022.

• RAID 2022 BinProv: Binary Code Provenance Identification without Disassembly [paper]
  Xu He, Shu Wang, Yunlong Xing, Pengbin Feng, Haining Wang, Qi Li, Songqing Chen, and Kun Sun.
  International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), Limassol, Cyprus, 2022.
  (Acceptance Rate: 35/139 = 25.2%)

• CTCIS 2017 Research on Cryptographic Algorithm Recognition Based on Behavior Analysis [paper]
  Fei Yan, Yunlong Xing, Shiwei Zhang, Zhihan Yue, and Yamin Zheng.
  Chinese Conference on Trusted Computing and Information Security (CTCIS), Wuhan, China, 2017.

Journal Papers

• TDSC 2023 A Hybrid System Call Profiling Approach for Container Protection [paper]
  Yunlong Xing*, Xinda Wang*, Sadegh Torabi, Zeyu Zhang, Lingguang Lei, and Kun Sun.
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2023.
  (* indicates equal contribution) (Impact Factor: 7 as 2023)

• FGCS 2022 The Devil is in the Detail: Generating System Call Whitelist for Linux Seccomp [paper]
  Yunlong Xing, Jiahao Cao, Kun Sun, Fei Yan, and Shengye Wan.
  Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), 2022.
  (Impact Factor: 7.3 as 2022)

• Container Security Protection Scheme Based on System Call Restriction [paper]
  Yunlong Xing, Fei Yan, Yanxiao Liu, and Liqiang Zhang.
  Journal of Wuhan University (Natural Science Edition), 2021 (in Chinese).

Posters

• CCS 2024 Poster: Repairing Bugs with the Introduction of New Variables: A Multi-Agent Large Language Model [paper]
  Elisa Zhang, Shiyu Sun, Yunlong Xing, and Kun Sun.
  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Salt Lake City, UT, 2024.

• TAPIA 2024 DISPATCH: Entangled Security Patch Unravelment in Open-Source Software
  Shiyu Sun, Yunlong Xing, Xinda Wang, and Kun Sun.
  CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Conference, San Diego, CA, 2024.