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Coverage-guided fuzzers are powerful automated bug-finding tools. They mutate program inputs, observe coverage, and save any input that hits an unexplored path for future mutation. Unfortunately, without knowledge of input formats--for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Harrison Green , Claire Le Goues , Fraser Brown

Fuzzing is an increasingly popular technique for verifying software functionalities and finding security vulnerabilities. However, current mutation-based fuzzers cannot effectively test database management systems (DBMSs), which strictly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Rui Zhong , Yongheng Chen , Hong Hu , Hangfan Zhang , Wenke Lee , Dinghao Wu

The need to increase accuracy in detecting sophisticated cyber attacks poses a great challenge not only to the research community but also to corporations. So far, many approaches have been proposed to cope with this threat. Among them,…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-10-13 Huu Hoa Nguyen , Nouria Harbi , Jérôme Darmont

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

Robustness is a key concern for Rust library development because Rust promises no risks of undefined behaviors if developers use safe APIs only. Fuzzing is a practical approach for examining the robustness of programs. However, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Jianfeng Jiang , Hui Xu , Yangfan Zhou

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 has been studied and applied ever since the 1990s. Automated and continuous fuzzing has recently been applied also to open source software projects, including the Linux and BSD kernels. This paper concentrates on the practical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Jukka Ruohonen , Kalle Rindell

This paper presents a scalable, practical approach to quantifying information leaks in software; these errors are often overlooked and downplayed, but can seriously compromise security mechanisms such as address space layout randomisation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Daniel Blackwell , Ingolf Becker , David Clark

Service fingerprinting (i.e. the identification of network services and other applications on computing systems) is an essential part of penetration tests. The main contribution of this paper is a study on the improvement of fingerprinting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-05 Michael Hanspach , Ralf Schumann , Stefan Schemmer , Sebastian Vandersee

RESTful APIs are a type of web services that are widely used in industry. In the last few years, a lot of effort in the research community has been spent in designing novel techniques to automatically fuzz those APIs to find faults in them.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Man Zhang , Andrea Arcuri

This paper explores the use of active and passive learning, i.e.\ active and passive techniques to infer state machine models of systems, for fuzzing. Fuzzing has become a very popular and successful technique to improve the robustness of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Cristian Daniele , Seyed Behnam Andarzian , Erik Poll

Solid-State Drive (SSD) firmware manages complex internal states, including flash memory maintenance. Due to nondeterministic I/O operations, traditional testing methods struggle to rapidly achieve coverage of firmware code areas that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Gangho Yoon , Eunseok Lee

Hardware flaws are permanent and potent: hardware cannot be patched once fabricated, and any flaws may undermine any software executing on top. Consequently, verification time dominates implementation time. The gold standard in hardware…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Timothy Trippel , Kang G. Shin , Alex Chernyakhovsky , Garret Kelly , Dominic Rizzo , Matthew Hicks

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

The control logic models built by Simulink or Ptolemy have been widely used in industry scenes. It is an urgent need to ensure the safety and security of the control logic models. Test case generation technologies are widely used to ensure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Yixiao Yang

With its unique advantages such as decentralization and immutability, blockchain technology has been widely used in various fields in recent years. The smart contract running on the blockchain is also playing an increasingly important role…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Mengjie Ding , Peiru Li , Shanshan Li , He Zhang

Implementations of network protocols are often prone to vulnerabilities caused by developers' mistakes when accessing memory regions and dealing with arithmetic operations. Finding practical approaches for checking the security of network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Kaled Alshmrany , Lucas Cordeiro

Fuzzy logic controllers are readily customizable in natural language terms and can effectively deal with nonlinearities and uncertainties in control systems. This paper presents an intelligent and automated fuzzy control procedure for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-07 Issam Damaj , Jean Saade , Hala Al-Faisal , Hassan Diab

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

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) have evolved from a theoretical cryptographic concept into a powerful tool for implementing privacy-preserving and verifiable applications without requiring trust assumptions. Despite significant progress in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Stefanos Chaliasos , Imam Al-Fath , Alastair Donaldson