---
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: lines
    sequence: string
  - name: raw_lines
    sequence: string
  - name: label
    sequence: int64
  - name: type
    sequence: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 14476057
    num_examples: 12672
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 3485317
    num_examples: 3169
  download_size: 7020615
  dataset_size: 17961374
---
# Dataset Card for "vul_lines"

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Original Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167739X24004680

bibtex

```
@article{TRAN2024107504,
title = {DetectVul: A statement-level code vulnerability detection for Python},
journal = {Future Generation Computer Systems},
pages = {107504},
year = {2024},
issn = {0167-739X},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2024.107504},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167739X24004680},
author = {Hoai-Chau Tran and Anh-Duy Tran and Kim-Hung Le},
keywords = {Source code vulnerability detection, Deep learning, Natural language processing},
abstract = {Detecting vulnerabilities in source code using graph neural networks (GNN) has gained significant attention in recent years. However, the detection performance of these approaches relies highly on the graph structure, and constructing meaningful graphs is expensive. Moreover, they often operate at a coarse level of granularity (such as function-level), which limits their applicability to other scripting languages like Python and their effectiveness in identifying vulnerabilities. To address these limitations, we propose DetectVul, a new approach that accurately detects vulnerable patterns in Python source code at the statement level. DetectVul applies self-attention to directly learn patterns and interactions between statements in a raw Python function; thus, it eliminates the complicated graph extraction process without sacrificing model performance. In addition, the information about each type of statement is also leveraged to enhance the model’s detection accuracy. In our experiments, we used two datasets, CVEFixes and Vudenc, with 211,317 Python statements in 21,571 functions from real-world projects on GitHub, covering seven vulnerability types. Our experiments show that DetectVul outperforms GNN-based models using control flow graphs, achieving the best F1 score of 74.47%, which is 25.45% and 18.05% higher than the best GCN and GAT models, respectively.}
}
```