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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

The domain name system (DNS) is one of the most important components of today's Internet, and is the standard naming convention between human-readable domain names and machine-routable IP addresses of Internet resources. However, due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Aminollah Khormali , Jeman Park , Hisham Alasmary , Afsah Anwar , David Mohaisen

Fuzzing is a popular dynamic program analysis technique used to find vulnerabilities in complex software. Fuzzing involves presenting a target program with crafted malicious input designed to cause crashes, buffer overflows, memory errors,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Mohit Rajpal , William Blum , Rishabh Singh

GPUs have gained significant popularity over the past decade, extending beyond their original role in graphics rendering. This evolution has brought GPU security and reliability to the forefront of concerns. Prior research has shown that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Saurabh Singh , Ruobing Han , Jaewon Lee , Seonjin Na , Yonghae Kim , Taesoo Kim , Hyesoon Kim

This paper exposes a new vulnerability and introduces a corresponding attack, the NoneXistent Name Server Attack (NXNSAttack), that disrupts and may paralyze the DNS system, making it difficult or impossible for Internet users to access…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Yehuda Afek , Anat Bremler-Barr , Lior Shafir

PHP, a dominant scripting language in web development, powers a vast range of websites, from personal blogs to major platforms. While existing research primarily focuses on PHP application-level security issues like code injection, memory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yuancheng Jiang , Chuqi Zhang , Bonan Ruan , Jiahao Liu , Manuel Rigger , Roland Yap , Zhenkai Liang

Context: Exhaustive fuzzing of modern JavaScript engines is infeasible due to the vast number of program states and execution paths. Coverage-guided fuzzers waste effort on low-risk inputs, often ignoring vulnerability-triggering ones that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kishan Kumar Ganguly , Tim Menzies

Since security was not among the original design goals of the Domain Name System (herein called Vanilla DNS), many secure DNS schemes have been proposed to enhance the security and privacy of the DNS resolution process. Some proposed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Ali Sadeghi Jahromi , AbdelRahman Abdou , Paul C. van Oorschot

Fuzzing is a widely used technique for detecting vulnerabilities in smart contracts, which generates transaction sequences to explore the execution paths of smart contracts. However, existing fuzzers are falling short in detecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jie Chen , Liangmin Wang

Nested virtualization is now widely supported by major cloud vendors, allowing users to leverage virtualization-based technologies in the cloud. However, supporting nested virtualization significantly increases host hypervisor complexity…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Reima Ishii , Takaaki Fukai , Takahiro Shinagawa

The threats of caching poisoning attacks largely stimulate the deployment of DNSSEC. Being a strong but demanding cryptographical defense, DNSSEC has its universal adoption predicted to go through a lengthy transition. Thus the DNSSEC…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Zheng Wang

Vulnerabilities in open-source operating systems (OSs) pose substantial security risks to software systems, making their detection crucial. While fuzzing has been an effective vulnerability detection technique in various domains, OS fuzzing…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kun Hu , Qicai Chen , Wenzhuo Zhang , Zilong Lu , Bihuan Chen , You Lu , Haowen Jiang , Bingkun Sun , Xin Peng , Wenyun Zhao

Recently, many Deep Learning fuzzers have been proposed for testing of DL libraries. However, they either perform unguided input generation (e.g., not considering the relationship between API arguments when generating inputs) or only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Nima Shiri Harzevili , Mohammad Mahdi Mohajer , Moshi Wei , Hung Viet Pham , Song Wang

Deep learning (DL) systems can make our life much easier, and thus are gaining more and more attention from both academia and industry. Meanwhile, bugs in DL systems can be disastrous, and can even threaten human lives in safety-critical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Anjiang Wei , Yinlin Deng , Chenyuan Yang , Lingming Zhang

Fuzzing is a security testing methodology effective in finding bugs. In a nutshell, a fuzzer sends multiple slightly malformed messages to the software under test, hoping for crashes or weird system behaviour. The methodology is relatively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Cristian Daniele , Seyed Behnam Andarzian , Erik Poll

Fuzzing is a widely used technique for detecting software bugs and vulnerabilities. Most popular fuzzers generate new inputs using an evolutionary search to maximize code coverage. Essentially, these fuzzers start with a set of seed inputs,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Dongdong She , Rahul Krishna , Lu Yan , Suman Jana , Baishakhi Ray

DNS is a basic Internet service which almost all other user services depend on. However, what has been perceived in practice are a lot of inconsistencies and errors in the configuration of servers that cause different problems. The majority…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Petar D. Bojović , Slavko Gajin

Domain Name Service is a trusted protocol made for name resolution, but during past years some approaches have been developed to use it for data transfer. DNS Tunneling is a method where data is encoded inside DNS queries, allowing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Franco Palau , Carlos Catania , Jorge Guerra , Sebastian Garcia , Maria Rigaki

Fuzzing has become a popular technique for automatically detecting vulnerabilities and bugs by generating unexpected inputs. In recent years, the fuzzing process has been integrated into continuous integration workflows (i.e., continuous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Tatsuya Shirai , Olivier Nourry , Yutaro Kashiwa , Kenji Fujiwara , Hajimu Iida

Multi-robot swarms play an essential role in complex missions including battlefield reconnaissance, agricultural pest monitoring, as well as disaster search and rescue. Unfortunately, given the complexity of swarm algorithms, logical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ruoyu Zhou , Zhiwei Zhang , Haocheng Han , Xiaodong Zhang , Zehan Chen , Jun Sun , Yulong Shen , Dehai Xu