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Tool-augmented LLM agents increasingly rely on multi-step, multi-tool workflows to complete real tasks. This design expands the attack surface, because data produced by one tool can be persisted and later reused as input to another tool,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jiangrong Wu , Zitong Yao , Yuhong Nan , Zibin Zheng

Directed greybox fuzzing (DGF) can quickly discover or reproduce bugs in programs by seeking to reach a program location or explore some locations in order. However, due to their static stage division and coarse-grained energy scheduling,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Hongliang Liang , Xianglin Cheng , Jie Liu , Jin Li

Fuzz Testing techniques are the state of the art in software testing for security issues nowadays. Their great effectiveness attracted the attention of researchers and hackers and involved them in developing a lot of new techniques to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Andrea Fioraldi , Luigi Paolo Pileggi

A flurry of fuzzing tools (fuzzers) have been proposed in the literature, aiming at detecting software vulnerabilities effectively and efficiently. To date, it is however still challenging to compare fuzzers due to the inconsistency of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yuwei Li , Shouling Ji , Yuan Chen , Sizhuang Liang , Wei-Han Lee , Yueyao Chen , Chenyang Lyu , Chunming Wu , Raheem Beyah , Peng Cheng , Kangjie Lu , Ting Wang

Fuzzing is widely used for detecting bugs and vulnerabilities, with various techniques proposed to enhance its effectiveness. To combine the advantages of multiple technologies, researchers proposed ensemble fuzzing, which integrates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yukai Zhao , Shaohua Wang , Jue Wang , Xing Hu , Xin Xia

SpecFuzz is the first tool that enables dynamic testing for speculative execution vulnerabilities (e.g., Spectre). The key is a novel concept of speculation exposure: The program is instrumented to simulate speculative execution in software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Oleksii Oleksenko , Bohdan Trach , Mark Silberstein , Christof Fetzer

Smart contract vulnerabilities have led to billions in losses, yet finding actionable exploits remains challenging. Traditional fuzzers rely on rigid heuristics and struggle with complex attacks, while human auditors are thorough but slow…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Arthur Gervais , Liyi Zhou

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

Deep Learning (DL) frameworks have served as fundamental components in DL systems over the last decade. However, bugs in DL frameworks could lead to catastrophic consequences in critical scenarios. A simple yet effective way to find bugs in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shaoyu Yang , Chunrong Fang , Haifeng Lin , Xiang Chen , Jia Liu , Zhenyu Chen

The increasing complexity of modern processor and IP designs presents significant challenges in identifying and mitigating hardware flaws early in the IC design cycle. Traditional hardware fuzzing techniques, inspired by software testing,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Raghul Saravanan , Sreenitha Kasarapu , Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao

The proxy design pattern allows Ethereum smart contracts to be simultaneously immutable and upgradeable, in which an original contract is split into a proxy contract containing the data storage and a logic contract containing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Cheng-Kang Chen , Wen-Yi Chu , Muoi Tran , Laurent Vanbever , Hsu-Chun Hsiao

Poorly designed smart contracts are particularly vulnerable, as they may allow attackers to exploit weaknesses and steal the virtual currency they manage. In this study, we train a model using unsupervised learning to identify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hong-Sheng Huang , Jen-Yi Ho , Hao-Wen Chen , Hung-Min Sun

The immutable and trustable characteristics of blockchain enable smart contracts to be applied in various fields. Unfortunately, smart contracts are subject to various vulnerabilities, which are frequently exploited by attackers, causing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Haiyang Liu , Yuqi Fan , Lin Feng , Zhenchun Wei

As the complexity of modern processors has increased over the years, developing effective verification strategies to identify bugs prior to manufacturing has become critical. Undiscovered micro-architectural bugs in processors can manifest…

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

Large Language Models(LLMs) are widely deployed, yet are vulnerable to jailbreak prompts that elicit policy-violating outputs. Although prior studies have uncovered these risks, they typically treat all tokens as equally important during…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Wenyu Chen , Xiangtao Meng , Chuanchao Zang , Li Wang , Xinyu Gao , Jianing Wang , Peng Zhan , Zheng Li , Shanqing Guo

Security attacks targeting smart contracts have been on the rise, which have led to financial loss and erosion of trust. Therefore, it is important to enable developers to discover security vulnerabilities in smart contracts before…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Asem Ghaleb , Karthik Pattabiraman

Currently, smart contract vulnerabilities (SCVs) have emerged as a major factor threatening the transaction security of blockchain. Existing state-of-the-art methods rely on deep learning to mitigate this threat. They treat each input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yizhou Chen , Zeyu Sun , Zhihao Gong , Dan Hao

Smart contracts are susceptible to being exploited by attackers, especially when facing real-world vulnerabilities. To mitigate this risk, developers often rely on third-party audit services to identify potential vulnerabilities before…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Che Wang , Jiashuo Zhang , Jianbo Gao , Libin Xia , Zhi Guan , Zhong Chen

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