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Seed scheduling is a prominent factor in determining the yields of hybrid fuzzing. Existing hybrid fuzzers schedule seeds based on fixed heuristics that aim to predict input utilities. However, such heuristics are not generalizable as there…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Yaohui Chen , Mansour Ahmadi , Reza Mirzazade farkhani , Boyu Wang , Long Lu

Fuzzing is utilized for testing software and systems for cybersecurity risk via the automated adaptation of inputs. It facilitates the identification of software bugs and misconfigurations that may create vulnerabilities, cause abnormal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Jack Hance , Jeremy Straub

Fuzzing technologies have evolved at a fast pace in recent years, revealing bugs in programs with ever increasing depth and speed. Applications working with complex formats are however more difficult to take on, as inputs need to meet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Andrea Fioraldi , Daniele Cono D'Elia , Emilio Coppa

Existing LLM-based compiler fuzzers often produce syntactically or semantically invalid test programs, limiting their effectiveness in exercising compiler optimizations and backend components. We introduce ReFuzzer, a framework for refining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-02 Iti Shree , Karine Even-Mendoza , Tomasz Radzik

The importance of addressing security vulnerabilities is indisputable, with software becoming crucial in sectors such as national defense and finance. Consequently, The security issues caused by software vulnerabilities cannot be ignored.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Liqun Yang , Chunan Li , Yongxin Qiu , Chaoren Wei , Jian Yang , Hongcheng Guo , Jinxin Ma , Zhoujun Li

Dynamic data flow analysis has been widely used to guide greybox fuzzing. However, traditional dynamic data flow analysis tends to go astray in the massive path tracking and requires to process a large volume of data, resulting in low…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Xiaofan Li , Xuan Li , Guangfa Lv , Yongzheng Zhang , Fengyu Wang

Software fuzzing is a strong testing technique that has become the de facto approach for automated software testing and software vulnerability detection in the industry. The random nature of fuzzing makes monitoring and understanding the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Aftab Hussain , Mohammad Amin Alipour

Verification is a critical process for ensuring the correctness of modern processors. The increasing complexity of processor designs and the emergence of new instruction set architectures (ISAs) like RISC-V have created demands for more…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yang Zhong , Haoran Wu , Xueqi Li , Sa Wang , David Boland , Yungang Bao , Kan Shi

Gray-box fuzzing is widely used for testing embedded systems (ESes). State-of-the-art (SOTA) gray-box fuzzers test ES firmware in fully emulated environments without real peripherals. They emulate missing peripherals to achieve decent code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Wei-Lun Huang , Kang G. Shin

Directed fuzzing performs best for targeted program testing via estimating the impact of each input in reaching predefined program points. But due to insufficient analysis of the program structure and lack of flexibility and configurability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Darya Parygina , Timofey Mezhuev , Daniil Kuts

The ever-increasing complexity of design specifications for processors and intellectual property (IP) presents a formidable challenge for early bug detection in the modern IC design cycle. The recent advancements in hardware fuzzing have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Raghul Saravanan , Sai Manoj P D

Modern compilers, such as LLVM, are complex pieces of software. Due to their complexity, manual testing is unlikely to suffice, yet formal verification is difficult to scale. End-to-end fuzzing can be used, but it has difficulties in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yuyang Rong , Zhanghan Yu , Zhenkai Weng , Stephen Neuendorffer , Hao Chen

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

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

Fuzzing is one of the most effective technique to identify potential software vulnerabilities. Most of the fuzzers aim to improve the code coverage, and there is lack of directedness (e.g., fuzz the specified path in a software). In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Xiaogang Zhu , Shigang Liu , Xian Li , Sheng Wen , Jun Zhang , Camtepe Seyit , Yang Xiang

Hardware-level memory vulnerabilities severely threaten computing systems. However, hardware patching is inefficient or difficult postfabrication. We investigate the effectiveness of hardware fuzzing in detecting hardware memory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Mohamadreza Rostami , Chen Chen , Rahul Kande , Huimin Li , Jeyavijayan Rajendran , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

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

Processor designs rely on iterative modifications and reuse well-established designs. However, this reuse of prior designs also leads to similar vulnerabilities across multiple processors. As processors grow increasingly complex with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chen Chen , Zaiyan Xu , Mohamadreza Rostami , David Liu , Dileep Kalathil , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Jeyavijayan Rajendran

Many assisting exploration strategies have been proposed to assist grey-box fuzzers in exploring program states guarded by tight and complex branch conditions such as equality constraints. Although they have shown promising results in their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Mingyuan Wu , Jiahong Xiang , Kunqiu Chen , Peng DI , Shin Hwei Tan , Heming Cui , Yuqun Zhang

LLM inference and serving systems have become security-critical infrastructure; however, many of their most concerning failures arise from the serving layer rather than from model behavior alone. Modern inference engines combine KV cache,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yunze Zhao , Yibo Zhao , Yuchen Zhang , Zaoxing Liu , Michelle L. Mazurek