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Peeling Off the Cocoon: Unveiling Suppressed Golden Seeds for Mutational Greybox Fuzzing

Software Engineering 2026-03-02 v1
Authors: Ruixiang Qian , Chunrong Fang , Zengxu Chen , Youxin Fu , Zhenyu Chen
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Abstract

PoCo is a technique that aims to enhance modern coverage-based seed selection (CSS) techniques (such as afl-cmin) by gradually removing obstacle conditional statements and conducting deeper seed selection.

Keywords

Greybox Fuzzing Seed Selection Coverage-based Mutation Golden Seeds

Cite

@article{arxiv.2602.23736,
  title  = {Peeling Off the Cocoon: Unveiling Suppressed Golden Seeds for Mutational Greybox Fuzzing},
  author = {Ruixiang Qian and Chunrong Fang and Zengxu Chen and Youxin Fu and Zhenyu Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.23736},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Accepted by OOPSLA 2026

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