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Smart contract (SC) fuzzing is a critical technique for detecting vulnerabilities in blockchain applications. However, its adoption remains challenging for practitioners due to fundamental differences between SCs and traditional software…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Guanming Qiao , Partha Protim Paul

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

Fuzzing is one of the fastest growing fields in software testing. The idea behind fuzzing is to check the behavior of software against a large number of randomly generated inputs, trying to cover all interesting parts of the input space,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Rahul Gopinath , Philipp Görz , Alex Groce

Fuzzing is an automated application vulnerability detection method. For genetic algorithm-based fuzzing, it can mutate the seed files provided by users to obtain a number of inputs, which are then used to test the objective application in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Chenyang Lyu , Shouling Ji , Yuwei Li , Junfeng Zhou , Jianhai Chen , Jing Chen

Autonomous driving has become real; semi-autonomous driving vehicles in an affordable price range are already on the streets, and major automotive vendors are actively developing full self-driving systems to deploy them in this decade.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Seulbae Kim , Major Liu , Junghwan "John" Rhee , Yuseok Jeon , Yonghwi Kwon , Chung Hwan Kim

Coverage guided fuzzing (CGF) is an effective testing technique which has detected hundreds of thousands of bugs from various software applications. It focuses on maximizing code coverage to reveal more bugs during fuzzing. However, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Ruixiang Qian , Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Lihua Guo

The widespread application of large language models (LLMs) underscores the importance of deep learning (DL) technologies that rely on foundational DL libraries such as PyTorch and TensorFlow. Despite their robust features, these libraries…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Zhiyuan Li , Jingzheng Wu , Xiang Ling , Tianyue Luo , Zhiqing Rui , Yanjun Wu

Exponential growth in embedded systems is driving the research imperative to develop fuzzers to automate firmware testing to uncover software bugs and security vulnerabilities. But, employing fuzzing techniques in this context present a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Guy Farrelly , Michael Chesser , Damith C. Ranasinghe

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

In the evolving landscape of integrated circuit (IC) design, the increasing complexity of modern processors and intellectual property (IP) cores has introduced new challenges in ensuring design correctness and security. The recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Raghul Saravanan , Sudipta Paria , Aritra Dasgupta , Venkat Nitin Patnala , Swarup Bhunia , Sai Manoj P D

Fuzzing is an increasingly popular technique for verifying software functionalities and finding security vulnerabilities. However, current mutation-based fuzzers cannot effectively test database management systems (DBMSs), which strictly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Rui Zhong , Yongheng Chen , Hong Hu , Hangfan Zhang , Wenke Lee , Dinghao Wu

Fuzz testing is a fundamental technique employed to identify vulnerabilities within software systems. However, the process can be protracted and resource-intensive, especially when confronted with extensive codebases. In this work, I…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Saket Upadhyay

Software testing is becoming a critical part of the development cycle of embedded devices, enabling vulnerability detection. A well-studied approach of software testing is fuzz-testing (fuzzing), during which mutated input is sent to an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Philip Sperl , Konstantin Böttinger

Ensuring the security and reliability of machine learning frameworks is crucial for building trustworthy AI-based systems. Fuzzing, a popular technique in secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC), can be used to develop secure and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ilya Yegorov , Eli Kobrin , Darya Parygina , Alexey Vishnyakov , Andrey Fedotov

Patch fuzzing is a technique aimed at identifying vulnerabilities that arise from newly patched code. While researchers have made efforts to apply patch fuzzing to testing JavaScript engines with considerable success, these efforts have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Junjie Wang , Yuhan Ma , Xiaofei Xie , Xiaoning Du , Xiangwei Zhang

Software bugs significantly contribute to software cost and increase the risk of system malfunctioning. In recent years, many automated program-repair approaches have been proposed to automatically fix undesired program behavior. Despite of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Dirk Beyer , Lars Grunske , Thomas Lemberger , Minxing Tang

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

The rapid escalation of applying Machine Learning (ML) in various domains has led to paying more attention to the quality of ML components. There is then a growth of techniques and tools aiming at improving the quality of ML components and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Mohammad Mehdi Morovati , Amin Nikanjam , Foutse Khomh , Zhen Ming , Jiang

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

Hardware-software leakage contracts have emerged as a formalism for specifying side-channel security guarantees of modern processors, yet verifying that a complex hardware design complies with its contract remains a major challenge. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Gideon Geier , Pariya Hajipour , Jan Reineke