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The rapidly developing deep learning (DL) techniques have been applied in software systems with various application scenarios. However, they could also pose new safety threats with potentially serious consequences, especially in…

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Program fuzzing---providing randomly constructed inputs to a computer program---has proved to be a powerful way to uncover bugs, find security vulnerabilities, and generate test inputs that increase code coverage. In many applications,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Zi Wang , Ben Liblit , Thomas Reps

Docker is a virtualization technique heavily used in the industry to build cloud-based systems. In the context of Docker, a system is said to be observable if engineers can get accurate information about its running state in production. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Long Zhang , Deepika Tiwari , Brice Morin , Benoit Baudry , Martin Monperrus

On average, 71% of the code in typical Java projects comes from open-source software (OSS) dependencies, making OSS dependencies the dominant component of modern software code bases. This high degree of OSS reliance comes with a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Stefan Schott , Serena Elisa Ponta , Wolfram Fischer , Jonas Klauke , Eric Bodden

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

Buffer-overruns are a prevalent vulnerability in software libraries and applications. Fuzz testing is one of the effective techniques to detect vulnerabilities in general. Greybox fuzzers such as AFL automatically generate a sequence of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Raveendra Kumar Medicherla , Malathy Nagalakshmi , Tanya Sharma , Raghavan Komondoor

Tool-augmented LLM agents increasingly rely on multi-step, multi-tool workflows to complete real tasks. This design expands the attack surface, because data produced by one tool can be persisted and later reused as input to another tool,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jiangrong Wu , Zitong Yao , Yuhong Nan , Zibin Zheng

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

Over 70% of security vulnerabilities in critical software systems today result from memory safety violations. To address this challenge, fuzzing and static analysis are widely used automated methods to discover such vulnerabilities. Fuzzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Keno Hassler , Philipp Görz , Stephan Lipp

Smart contracts, the cornerstone of decentralized applications, have become increasingly prominent in revolutionizing the digital landscape. However, vulnerabilities in smart contracts pose great risks to user assets and undermine overall…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ruichao Liang , Jing Chen , Cong Wu , Kun He , Yueming Wu , Ruochen Cao , Ruiying Du , Yang Liu , Ziming Zhao

Fuzzing is one of the most popular and widely used techniques to find vulnerabilities in any application. Fuzzers are fast enough, but they still spend a good portion of time to restart a crashed application and then fuzz it from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Prashant Singh Chouhan , Gregory Price , Gene Cooperman

Fuzzing is a promising technique for detecting security vulnerabilities. Newly developed fuzzers are typically evaluated in terms of the number of bugs found on vulnerable programs/binaries. However,existing corpora usually do not capture…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Xiaogang Zhu , Xiaotao Feng , Tengyun Jiao , Sheng Wen , Yang Xiang , Seyit Camtepe , Jingling Xue

In this paper, we take a deep dive into microarchitectural security from a hardware designer's perspective by reviewing the existing approaches to detect hardware vulnerabilities during the design phase. We show that a protection gap…

4G and 5G represent the current cellular communication standards utilized daily by billions of users for various applications. Consequently, ensuring the security of 4G and 5G network implementations is critically important. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Ilja Siroš , Dave Singelée , Bart Preneel

Recent research has sought to improve fuzzing performance via parallel computing. However, researchers focus on improving efficiency while ignoring the increasing cost of testing resources. Parallel fuzzing in the distributed environment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Xu Zhou , Pengfei Wang , Chenyifan Liu , Tai Yue , Yingying Liu , Congxi Song , Kai Lu , Qidi Yin , Xu Han

Firmware fuzzing has gained attention for identifying firmware bugs. However, current approaches often directly integrate fuzzing tools for general software. General software receives input as it encounters I/O functions, but firmware input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shandian Shen , Wei Zhou , Keming Zhao , Peng Liu , Chung Hwan Kim , Le Guan

In the domain of software security testing, Directed Grey-Box Fuzzing (DGF) has garnered widespread attention for its efficient target localization and excellent detection performance. However, existing approaches measure only the physical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Wang Bin , Ao Yang , Kedan Li , Aofan Liu , Hui Li , Guibo Luo , Weixiang Huang , Yan Zhuang

Bug localization in object oriented program ha s always been an important issue in softeware engineering. In this paper, I propose a source level bug localization technique for object oriented embedded programs. My proposed technique,…

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Fuzzing a library requires experts to understand the library usage well and craft high-quality fuzz drivers, which is tricky and tedious. Therefore, many techniques have been proposed to automatically generate fuzz drivers. However, they…

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