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Greybox fuzzing is a proven and effective testing method for the detection of security vulnerabilities and other bugs in modern software systems. Greybox fuzzing can also be used in combination with a sanitizer, such as AddressSanitizer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jinsheng Ba , Gregory J. Duck , Abhik Roychoudhury

Fuzz testing to find semantic control vulnerabilities is an essential activity to evaluate the robustness of autonomous driving (AD) software. Whilst there is a preponderance of disparate fuzzing tools that target different parts of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Andrew Roberts , Lorenz Teply , Mert D. Pese , Olaf Maennel , Mohammad Hamad , Sebastian Steinhorst

While fuzzing is widely accepted as an efficient program testing technique, it is still unclear how to measure the comparative quality of different fuzzers. The current de facto quality metrics are edge coverage and the number of discovered…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Gwangmu Lee

Robustness is a key concern for Rust library development because Rust promises no risks of undefined behaviors if developers use safe APIs only. Fuzzing is a practical approach for examining the robustness of programs. However, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Jianfeng Jiang , Hui Xu , Yangfan Zhou

Coverage-guided fuzzing's aggressive, high-volume testing has helped reveal tens of thousands of software security flaws. While executing billions of test cases mandates fast code coverage tracing, the nature of binary-only targets leads to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Stefan Nagy , Anh Nguyen-Tuong , Jason D. Hiser , Jack W. Davidson , Matthew Hicks

Mutation-based fuzzing is popular and effective in discovering unseen code and exposing bugs. However, only a few studies have concentrated on quantifying the importance of input bytes, which refers to the degree to which a byte contributes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kunpeng Zhang , Xiaogang Zhu , Xi Xiao , Minhui Xue , Chao Zhang , Sheng Wen

Benchmarks play an important role in evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of solutions to automate several phases of the software development lifecycle. Moreover, if well designed, they also serve us well as an important artifact to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Thomas Durieux , Rui Abreu

Fuzz testing is a crucial component of software security assessment, yet its effectiveness heavily relies on valid fuzz drivers and diverse seed inputs. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) offer transformative potential for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yiran Cheng , Hong Jin Kang , Lwin Khin Shar , Chaopeng Dong , Zhiqiang Shi , Shichao Lv , Limin Sun

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

Modern software often accepts inputs with highly complex grammars. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown that they can be used to synthesize high-quality natural language text and code that conforms to the grammar of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Kunpeng Zhang , Zongjie Li , Daoyuan Wu , Shuai Wang , Xin Xia

Network-facing applications are commonly exposed to all kinds of attacks, especially when connected to the internet. As a result, web servers like Nginx or client applications such as curl make every effort to secure and harden their code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Nils Bars , Moritz Schloegel , Nico Schiller , Lukas Bernhard , Thorsten Holz

The purpose of continuous fuzzing platforms is to enable fuzzing for software projects via \emph{fuzz harnesses} -- but as the projects continue to evolve, are these harnesses updated in lockstep, or do they run out of date? If these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Philipp Görz , Joschua Schilling , Thorsten Holz , Marcel Böhme

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

Coverage-guided fuzzers are powerful automated bug-finding tools. They mutate program inputs, observe coverage, and save any input that hits an unexplored path for future mutation. Unfortunately, without knowledge of input formats--for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Harrison Green , Claire Le Goues , Fraser Brown

Fuzzing is a highly-scalable software testing technique that uncovers bugs in a target program by executing it with mutated inputs. Over the life of a fuzzing campaign, the fuzzer accumulates inputs inducing new and interesting target…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Simon Luo , Adrian Herrera , Paul Quirk , Michael Chase , Damith C. Ranasinghe , Salil S. Kanhere

Deep Learning (DL) library bugs affect downstream DL applications, emphasizing the need for reliable systems. Generating valid input programs for fuzzing DL libraries is challenging due to the need for satisfying both language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yinlin Deng , Chunqiu Steven Xia , Chenyuan Yang , Shizhuo Dylan Zhang , Shujing Yang , Lingming Zhang

Fuzz testing effectively uncovers software vulnerabilities; however, it faces challenges with Autonomous Systems (AS) due to their vast search spaces and complex state spaces, which reflect the unpredictability and complexity of real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Taohong Zhu , Adrians Skapars , Fardeen Mackenzie , Declan Kehoe , William Newton , Suzanne Embury , Youcheng Sun

Fuzzing REST APIs is an important research problem, with practical applications and impact in industry. As such, a lot of research work has been carried out on this topic in the last few years. However, there are three major issues that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Omur Sahin , Man Zhang , Andrea Arcuri

BusyBox, an open-source software bundling over 300 essential Linux commands into a single executable, is ubiquitous in Linux-based embedded devices. Vulnerabilities in BusyBox can have far-reaching consequences, affecting a wide array of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Asmita , Yaroslav Oliinyk , Michael Scott , Ryan Tsang , Chongzhou Fang , Houman Homayoun

In the modern era where software plays a pivotal role, software security and vulnerability analysis are essential for secure software development. Fuzzing test, as an efficient and traditional software testing method, has been widely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Linghan Huang , Peizhou Zhao , Huaming Chen , Lei Ma