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Fuzzing is a widely used technique for discovering software vulnerabilities, but identifying hot bytes that influence program behavior remains challenging. Traditional taint analysis can track such bytes white-box, but suffers from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Yuchong Xie , Wenhui Zhang , Dongdong She

Despite its effectiveness in uncovering software defects, American Fuzzy Lop (AFL), one of the best grey-box fuzzers, is inefficient when fuzz-testing source-unavailable programs. AFL's binary-only fuzzing mode, QEMU-AFL, is typically 2-5X…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Yaohui Chen , Dongliang Mu , Jun Xu , Zhichuang Sun , Wenbo Shen , Xinyu Xing , Long Lu , Bing Mao

Fuzz testing of software libraries relies on fuzz drivers to invoke library APIs. Traditionally, these drivers are written manually by developers - a process that is time-consuming and often inadequate for exercising complex program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xingyu Liu , Zengqin Huang , Xiang Gao , Hailong Sun

Mutation-based fuzzing has become one of the most common vulnerability discovery solutions over the last decade. Fuzzing can be optimized when targeting specific programs, and given that, some studies have employed online optimization…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Yuki Koike , Hiroyuki Katsura , Hiromu Yakura , Yuma Kurogome

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

Software model checking is a verification technique which is widely used for checking temporal properties of software systems. Even though it is a property verification technique, its common usage in practice is in "bug finding", that is,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Ruijie Meng , Zhen Dong , Jialin Li , Ivan Beschastnikh , Abhik Roychoudhury

Ever-increasing design complexity of System-on-Chips (SoCs) led to significant verification challenges. Unlike software, bugs in hardware design are vigorous and eternal i.e., once the hardware is fabricated, it cannot be repaired with any…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Deepak Narayan Gadde , Aman Kumar , Djones Lettnin , Sebastian Simon

Fuzz testing, or fuzzing, has become one of the de facto standard techniques for bug finding in the software industry. In general, fuzzing provides various inputs to the target program to discover unhandled exceptions and crashes. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Yifan Wang , Yuchen Zhang , Chengbin Pang , Peng Li , Nikolaos Triandopoulos , Jun Xu

Fuzzing has been proven extremely effective in finding vulnerabilities in software. When it comes to fuzz stateless systems, analysts have no doubts about the choice to make. In fact, among the plethora of stateless fuzzers devised in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Cristian Daniele

Software's pervasive impact and increasing reliance in the era of digital transformation raise concerns about vulnerabilities, emphasizing the need for software security. Fuzzy testing is a dynamic analysis software testing technique that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Tiago Dias , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

Open-world video games present a broader search space than other video games, posing challenges for test automation. Fuzzing, which generates new inputs by mutating an initial input, is commonly used to uncover issues. In this study, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yusaku Kato , Norihiro Yoshida , Erina Makihara , Katsuro Inoue

Fuzzing is a highly effective automated testing method for uncovering software vulnerabilities. Despite advances in fuzzing techniques, such as coverage-guided greybox fuzzing, many fuzzers struggle with coverage plateaus caused by fuzz…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Wentao Gao , Renata Borovica-Gajic , Sang Kil Cha , Tian Qiu , Van-Thuan Pham

A greybox fuzzer is an automated software testing tool that generates new test inputs by applying randomly chosen mutators (e.g., flipping a bit or deleting a block of bytes) to a seed input in random order and adds all coverage-increasing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Konstantinos Kitsios , Marcel Böhme , Alberto Bacchelli

Firmware serves as the critical interface between hardware and software in computing systems, making any bugs or vulnerabilities particularly dangerous as they can cause catastrophic system failures. While fuzzing is a promising approach…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Dakshina Tharindu , Aruna Jayasena , Prabhat Mishra

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

In recent years, the programming capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have garnered significant attention. Fuzz testing, a highly effective technique, plays a key role in enhancing software reliability and detecting vulnerabilities.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hanxiang Xu , Wei Ma , Ting Zhou , Yanjie Zhao , Kai Chen , Qiang Hu , Yang Liu , Haoyu Wang

High scalability and low running costs have made fuzz testing the de facto standard for discovering software bugs. Fuzzing techniques are constantly being improved in a race to build the ultimate bug-finding tool. However, while fuzzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Ahmad Hazimeh , Adrian Herrera , Mathias Payer

Fuzzing has proven to be very effective for discovering certain classes of software flaws, but less effective in helping developers process these discoveries. Conventional crash-based fuzzers lack enough information about failures to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Allison Naaktgeboren , Sean Noble Anderson , Andrew Tolmach , Greg Sullivan

Correctness and robustness are essential for logic synthesis applications, but they are often only tested with a limited set of benchmarks. Moreover, when the application fails on a large benchmark, the debugging process may be tedious and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Siang-Yun Lee , Heinz Riener , Giovanni De Micheli

Greybox protocol fuzzing is a random testing approach for stateful protocol implementations, where the input is protocol messages generated from mutations of seeds, and the search in the input space is driven by the feedback on coverage of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yu Wang , Yang Xiang , Chandra Thapa , Hajime Suzuki
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