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We examine (directed) greybox fuzzing from a geometrical perspective, viewing dissimilarities on inputs and on control flow graphs (with dynamical statistics) as primitive objects of interest. We prototype and evaluate GoExploreFuzz, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Steve Huntsman

Greybox fuzzing has achieved success in revealing bugs and vulnerabilities in programs. However, randomized mutation strategies have limited the fuzzer's performance on structured data. Specialized fuzzers can handle complex structured…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hongxiang Zhang , Yuyang Rong , Yifeng He , Hao Chen

Fuzzing consists of repeatedly testing an application with modified, or fuzzed, inputs with the goal of finding security vulnerabilities in input-parsing code. In this paper, we show how to automate the generation of an input grammar…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Patrice Godefroid , Hila Peleg , Rishabh Singh

Grey-box fuzzing is the lightweight approach of choice for finding bugs in sequential programs. It provides a balance between efficiency and effectiveness by conducting a biased random search over the domain of program inputs using a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Ruijie Meng , George Pîrlea , Abhik Roychoudhury , Ilya Sergey

Fuzzing is one of the prevailing methods for vulnerability detection. However, even state-of-the-art fuzzing methods become ineffective after some period of time, i.e., the coverage hardly improves as existing methods are ineffective to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Shunkai Zhu , Jingyi Wang , Jun Sun , Jie Yang , Xingwei Lin , Liyi Zhang , Peng Cheng

Fuzz testing (or fuzzing) is an effective technique used to find security vulnerabilities. It consists of feeding a software under test with malformed inputs, waiting for a weird system behaviour (often a crash of the system). Over the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Marcello Maugeri , Cristian Daniele , Giampaolo Bella , Erik Poll

Grey box fuzzing is one of the most successful methods for automatic vulnerability detection. However,conventional Grey box Fuzzers like AFL can open perform fuzzing against the whole input and spend more time on smaller seeds with lower…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Linlin Zhang , Ning Luo

In recent years, fuzzing has been widely applied not only to application software but also to system software, including the Linux kernel and firmware, and has become a powerful technique for vulnerability discovery. Among these approaches,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Masami Ichikawa

Graph algorithms, such as shortest path finding, play a crucial role in enabling essential applications and services like infrastructure planning and navigation, making their correctness important. However, thoroughly testing graph…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Wenqi Yan , Manuel Rigger , Anthony Wirth , Van-Thuan Pham

Directed greybox fuzzing is a popular technique for targeted software testing that seeks to find inputs that reach a set of target sites in a program. Most existing directed greybox fuzzers do not provide any theoretical analysis of their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Abhishek Shah , Dongdong She , Samanway Sadhu , Krish Singal , Peter Coffman , Suman Jana

Fuzzing has emerged as a powerful technique for finding security bugs in complicated real-world applications. American fuzzy lop (AFL), a leading fuzzing tool, has demonstrated its powerful bug finding ability through a vast number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Tai D. Nguyen , Long H. Pham , Jun Sun

Fuzzing is a powerful software testing technique renowned for its effectiveness in identifying software vulnerabilities. Traditional fuzzing evaluations typically focus on overall fuzzer performance across a set of target programs, yet few…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Miao Miao

Fuzzing is utilized for testing software and systems for cybersecurity risk via the automated adaptation of inputs. It facilitates the identification of software bugs and misconfigurations that may create vulnerabilities, cause abnormal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Jack Hance , Jeremy Straub

Fuzzing is a popular vulnerability automated testing method utilized by professionals and broader community alike. However, despite its abilities, fuzzing is a time-consuming, computationally expensive process. This is problematic for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Michael Wang , Michael Robinson

Binary-only fuzzing often struggles with achieving thorough code coverage and uncovering hidden vulnerabilities due to limited insight into a program's internal dataflows. Traditional grey-box fuzzers guide test case generation primarily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Kai Feng , Jeremy Singer , Angelos K Marnerides

Fuzzing has become the de facto standard technique for finding software vulnerabilities. However, even state-of-the-art fuzzers are not very efficient at finding hard-to-trigger software bugs. Most popular fuzzers use evolutionary guidance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Dongdong She , Kexin Pei , Dave Epstein , Junfeng Yang , Baishakhi Ray , Suman Jana

Fuzzing has become a popular technique for automatically detecting vulnerabilities and bugs by generating unexpected inputs. In recent years, the fuzzing process has been integrated into continuous integration workflows (i.e., continuous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Tatsuya Shirai , Olivier Nourry , Yutaro Kashiwa , Kenji Fujiwara , Hajimu Iida

Greybox fuzzing has made impressive progress in recent years, evolving from heuristics-based random mutation to approaches for solving individual path constraints. However, they have difficulty solving path constraints that involve deeply…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Peng Chen , Jianzhong Liu , Hao Chen

Software vulnerabilities are constantly being reported and exploited in software products, causing significant impacts on society. In recent years, the main approach to vulnerability detection, fuzzing, has been integrated into the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Tatsuya Shirai , Olivier Nourry , Yutaro Kashiwa , Kenji Fujiwara , Yasutaka Kamei , Hajimu Iida

Many protocol implementations are reactive systems, where the protocol process is in continuous interaction with other processes and the environment. If a bug can be exposed only in a certain state, a fuzzer needs to provide a specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jinsheng Ba , Marcel Böhme , Zahra Mirzamomen , Abhik Roychoudhury