Locate, Then Reason: End-to-End Patch Presence Testing in Stripped Binaries

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Huaijin Wang, Tongda Wang, Zhibo Liu, Yue Zhang, Shuai Wang, Pengfei Hu, Jianzhong Liu, Fangtian Zhong, Shaohua Wang)

Summary by Cyber Security News20 Oct 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.25071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Binary patch presence testing (PPT) determines whether a security fix is present in a stripped binary. Prior systems often assume that patch-relevant code is known or successfully matched. Function-level matching is brittle to compilation changes, inlining, finite model context, and missing usage context; moreover, similarity suppresses the patch-sized distinction needed for the verdict.

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