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In this work, we set out to conduct the first ground-truth empirical evaluation of state-of-the-art DL fuzzers. Specifically, we first manually created an extensive DL bug benchmark dataset, which includes 627 real-world DL bugs from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Nima Shiri Harzevili , Hung Viet Pham , Song Wang

Greybox fuzzing has achieved success in revealing bugs and vulnerabilities in programs. However, randomized mutation strategies have limited the fuzzer's performance on structured data. Specialized fuzzers can handle complex structured…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hongxiang Zhang , Yuyang Rong , Yifeng He , Hao Chen

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

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

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

Fuzzing is an effective bug-finding technique but it struggles with complex systems like JavaScript engines that demand precise grammatical input. Recently, researchers have adopted language models for context-aware mutation in fuzzing to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jueon Eom , Seyeon Jeong , Taekyoung Kwon

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

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

Fuzzers and static analyzers find many bugs but struggle with logic bugs in mature codebases. Triggering such a bug often requires multi-step reasoning that produces no distinctive execution feedback, and variants can appear across…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Junyoung Park , Insu Yun

In recent years, there has been a notable surge in attention towards hardware security, driven by the increasing complexity and integration of processors, SoCs, and third-party IPs aimed at delivering advanced solutions. However, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Raghul Saravanan , Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao

As fuzz testing has passed its 30th anniversary, and in the face of the incredible progress in fuzz testing techniques and tools, the question arises if the classic, basic fuzz technique is still useful and applicable? In that tradition, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Barton P. Miller , Mengxiao Zhang , Elisa R. Heymann

Fingerprinting of services and operating systems is an essential part of penetration tests. In order to successfully penetrate the computing system's security measurements, preexisting fingerprinting methods are described and the paradigm…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Michael Hanspach

Fuzzing has achieved tremendous success in discovering bugs and vulnerabilities in various software systems. Systems under test (SUTs) that take in programming or formal language as inputs, e.g., compilers, runtime engines, constraint…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Chunqiu Steven Xia , Matteo Paltenghi , Jia Le Tian , Michael Pradel , Lingming Zhang

There are around 5.3 billion Internet users, amounting to 65.7% of the global population, and web technology is the backbone of the services delivered via the Internet. To ensure web applications are free from security-related bugs, web…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 I Putu Arya Dharmaadi , Elias Athanasopoulos , Fatih Turkmen

Online social networks have become an integral aspect of our daily lives and play a crucial role in shaping our relationships with others. However, bugs and glitches, even minor ones, can cause anything from frustrating problems to serious…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Francisco Zanartu , Christoph Treude , Markus Wagner

Fuzzing consists of repeatedly testing an application with modified, or fuzzed, inputs with the goal of finding security vulnerabilities in input-parsing code. In this paper, we show how to automate the generation of an input grammar…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Patrice Godefroid , Hila Peleg , Rishabh Singh

Despite much recent interest in compiler randomized testing (fuzzing), the practical impact of fuzzer-found compiler bugs on real-world applications has barely been assessed. We present the first quantitative and qualitative study of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Michaël Marcozzi , Qiyi Tang , Alastair F. Donaldson , Cristian Cadar

GPUs play an increasingly important role in modern software. However, the heterogeneous host-device execution model and expanding software stacks make GPU programs prone to memory-safety and concurrency bugs that evade static analysis.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Mohamed Tarek Ibn ziad , Christos Kozyrakis

Mutation testing has been widely accepted as an approach to guide test case generation or to assess the effectiveness of test suites. Empirical studies have shown that mutants are representative of real faults; yet they also indicated a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Michele Tufano , Cody Watson , Gabriele Bavota , Massimiliano Di Penta , Martin White , Denys Poshyvanyk

Modern processor advancements have introduced security risks, particularly in the form of microarchitectural timing attacks. High-profile attacks such as Meltdown and Spectre have revealed critical flaws, compromising the entire system's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Congcong Chen , Jinhua Cui , Jiliang Zhang
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