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Ethereum is a distributed, peer-to-peer blockchain infrastructure that has attracted billions of dollars. Perhaps due to its success, Ethereum has become a target for various kinds of attacks, motivating researchers to explore different…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ismael Medeiros , Fausto Carvalho , Alexandre Ferreira , Rodrigo Bonifácio , Fabiano Cavalcanti Fernandes

Fuzzing has become one of the most popular techniques to identify bugs in software. To improve the fuzzing process, a plethora of techniques have recently appeared in academic literature. However, evaluating and comparing these techniques…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-17 David Paaßen , Sebastian Surminski , Michael Rodler , Lucas Davi

Directed Grey-box Fuzzing (DGF) has emerged as a widely adopted technique for crash reproduction and patch testing, leveraging its capability to precisely navigate toward target locations and exploit vulnerabilities. However, current DGF…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Guangfa Lyu , Zhenzhong Cao , Xiaofei Ren , Fengyu Wang

Fuzzing has become the de facto standard technique for finding software vulnerabilities. However, even state-of-the-art fuzzers are not very efficient at finding hard-to-trigger software bugs. Most popular fuzzers use evolutionary guidance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Dongdong She , Kexin Pei , Dave Epstein , Junfeng Yang , Baishakhi Ray , Suman Jana

Crafting high-quality fuzz drivers not only is time-consuming but also requires a deep understanding of the library. However, the state-of-the-art automatic fuzz driver generation techniques fall short of expectations. While fuzz drivers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yunlong Lyu , Yuxuan Xie , Peng Chen , Hao Chen

Fuzzing is a widely used software security testing technique that is designed to identify vulnerabilities in systems by providing invalid or unexpected input. Continuous fuzzing systems like OSS-FUZZ have been successful in finding security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Chaitanya Rahalkar

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models have revolutionized content creation by transforming textual descriptions into high-quality images. However, these models are vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks, where carefully crafted prompts bypass…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yingkai Dong , Xiangtao Meng , Ning Yu , Zheng Li , Shanqing Guo

Greybox fuzzing is the de-facto standard to discover bugs during development. Fuzzers execute many inputs to maximize the amount of reached code. Recently, Directed Greybox Fuzzers (DGFs) propose an alternative strategy that goes beyond…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Han Zheng , Jiayuan Zhang , Yuhang Huang , Zezhong Ren , He Wang , Chunjie Cao , Yuqing Zhang , Flavio Toffalini , Mathias Payer

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

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

Network attacks have become a major security concern for organizations worldwide and have also drawn attention in the academics. Recently, researchers have applied neural networks to detect network attacks with network logs. However, public…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Qingtian Zou , Anoop Singhal , Xiaoyan Sun , Peng Liu

Deep learning (DL) libraries, widely used in AI applications, often contain vulnerabilities like buffer overflows and use-after-free errors. Traditional fuzzing struggles with the complexity and API diversity of DL libraries such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Kunpeng Zhang , Shuai Wang , Jitao Han , Xiaogang Zhu , Xian Li , Shaohua Wang , Sheng Wen

We consider gray-box fuzzing of a program instrumented such that information about evaluation of program expressions converting values of numerical types to Boolean, like x <= y, is recorded during each program's execution. Given that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Martin Jonáš , Jan Strejček , Marek Trtík

Jailbreak vulnerabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs), which exploit meticulously crafted prompts to elicit content that violates service guidelines, have captured the attention of research communities. While model owners can defend…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Dongyu Yao , Jianshu Zhang , Ian G. Harris , Marcel Carlsson

Transient execution vulnerabilities have emerged as a critical threat to modern processors. Hardware fuzzing testing techniques have recently shown promising results in discovering transient execution bugs in large-scale out-of-order…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Jinyan Xu , Yangye Zhou , Xingzhi Zhang , Yinshuai Li , Qinhan Tan , Yinqian Zhang , Yajin Zhou , Rui Chang , Wenbo Shen

Mutation-based fuzzing typically uses an initial set of non-crashing seed inputs (a corpus) from which to generate new inputs by mutation. A corpus of potential seeds will often contain thousands of similar inputs. This lack of diversity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Adrian Herrera , Hendra Gunadi , Liam Hayes , Shane Magrath , Felix Friedlander , Maggi Sebastian , Michael Norrish , Antony L. Hosking

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…

The Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) defines processor operations and serves as the interface between hardware and software. As an open ISA, RISC-V lowers the barriers to processor design and encourages widespread adoption, but also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hao Lyu , Jingzheng Wu , Xiang Ling , Yicheng Zhong , Zhiyuan Li , Tianyue Luo

As machine learning gains prominence in various sectors of society for automated decision-making, concerns have risen regarding potential vulnerabilities in machine learning (ML) frameworks. Nevertheless, testing these frameworks is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Zhao Liu , Quanchen Zou , Tian Yu , Xuan Wang , Guozhu Meng , Kai Chen , Deyue Zhang

gVisor is a Google-published application-level kernel for containers. As gVisor is lightweight and has sound isolation, it has been widely used in many IT enterprises \cite{Stripe, DigitalOcean, Cloundflare}. When a new vulnerability of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Yuwei Li , Yuan Chen , Shouling Ji , Xuhong Zhang , Guanglu Yan , Alex X. Liu , Chunming Wu , Zulie Pan , Peng Lin