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Cryptographic protocols form the backbone of modern security systems, yet vulnerabilities persist within their implementations. Traditional testing techniques, including fuzzing, have struggled to effectively identify vulnerabilities in…

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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…

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Network protocol parsers are essential for enabling correct and secure communication between devices. Bugs in these parsers can introduce critical vulnerabilities, including memory corruption, information leakage, and denial-of-service…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Mingwei Zheng , Danning Xie , Xiangyu Zhang

Security verification of communication protocols in industrial and safety-critical systems is challenging because implementations are often proprietary, accessible only as black boxes, and too complex for manual modeling. As a result,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Stefan Marksteiner , Mikael Sjödin , Marjan Sirjani

Estimating worst-case resource consumption is a critical task in software development. The worst-case analysis (WCA) problem is an optimization-based abstraction of this task. Fuzzing and symbolic execution are widely used techniques for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zimu Chen , Di Wang

Greybox fuzzing is a lightweight testing approach that effectively detects bugs and security vulnerabilities. However, greybox fuzzers randomly mutate program inputs to exercise new paths; this makes it challenging to cover code that is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Valentin Wüstholz , Maria Christakis

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

Coverage-guided fuzzing has been widely applied to address zero-day vulnerabilities in general-purpose software and operating systems. This approach relies on instrumenting the target code at compile time. However, applying it to industrial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Carmine Cesarano , Roberto Natella

Command-line interface (CLI) fuzzing tests programs by mutating both command-line options and input file contents, thus enabling discovery of vulnerabilities that only manifest under specific option-input combinations. Prior works of CLI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Momoko Shiraishi , Yinzhi Cao , Takahiro Shinagawa

Testing-based methodologies like fuzzing are able to analyze complex software which is not amenable to traditional formal approaches like verification, model checking, and abstract interpretation. Despite enormous success at exposing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Shaobo He , Michael Emmi , Gabriela Ciocarlie

Fuzzing is one of the most popular and widely used techniques to find vulnerabilities in any application. Fuzzers are fast enough, but they still spend a good portion of time to restart a crashed application and then fuzz it from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Prashant Singh Chouhan , Gregory Price , Gene Cooperman

Internet of Things (IoT) devices offer convenience through web interfaces, web VPNs, and other web-based services, all relying on the HTTP protocol. However, these externally exposed HTTP services resent significant security risks. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Zhe Yang , Hao Peng , Yanling Jiang , Xingwei Li , Haohua Du , Shuhai Wang , Jianwei Liu

Modern computing systems heavily rely on hardware as the root of trust. However, their increasing complexity has given rise to security-critical vulnerabilities that cross-layer at-tacks can exploit. Traditional hardware vulnerability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Mohamadreza Rostami , Marco Chilese , Shaza Zeitouni , Rahul Kande , Jeyavijayan Rajendran , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

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

Taint-style vulnerabilities comprise a majority of fuzzer discovered program faults. These vulnerabilities usually manifest as memory access violations caused by tainted program input. Although fuzzers have helped uncover a majority of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Bhargava Shastry , Federico Maggi , Fabian Yamaguchi , Konrad Rieck , Jean-Pierre Seifert

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

Among the many software vulnerability discovery techniques available today, fuzzing has remained highly popular due to its conceptual simplicity, its low barrier to deployment, and its vast amount of empirical evidence in discovering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Valentin J. M. Manes , HyungSeok Han , Choongwoo Han , Sang Kil Cha , Manuel Egele , Edward J. Schwartz , Maverick Woo

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

Guided fuzzing has, in recent years, been able to uncover many new vulnerabilities in real-world software due to its fast input mutation strategies guided by path-coverage. However, most fuzzers are unable to achieve high coverage in deeper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Saahil Ognawala , Fabian Kilger , Alexander Pretschner

Objective: Machine learning (ML) models are increasingly used to generate electrical stimulation patterns in neuroprosthetic devices such as visual prostheses. While these models promise precise and personalized control, they also introduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Mara Downing , Matthew Peng , Jacob Granley , Michael Beyeler , Tevfik Bultan