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Software vulnerabilities pose critical security threats, with nearly 50,000 CVEs reported in 2025. While Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for automated vulnerability detection, three key challenges remain. First, LLM-generated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ze Sheng , Zhicheng Chen , Qingxiao Xu , Kewen Zhu , Jeff Huang

The Language Server Protocol (LSP) has revolutionized the integration of code intelligence in modern software development. There are approximately 300 LSP server implementations for various languages and 50 editors offering LSP integration.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hengcheng Zhu , Songqiang Chen , Valerio Terragni , Lili Wei , Yepang Liu , Jiarong Wu , Shing-Chi Cheung

Fuzzing is a highly effective method for uncovering software vulnerabilities, but analyzing the resulting data typically requires substantial manual effort. This is amplified by the fact that fuzzing campaigns often find a large number of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Patrick Herter , Vincent Ahlrichs , Ridvan Açilan , Julian Horsch

Traditional database fuzzing techniques primarily focus on syntactic correctness and general SQL structures, leaving critical yet obscure DBMS features, such as system-level modes (e.g., GTID), programmatic constructs (e.g., PROCEDURE),…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yongxin Chen , Zhiyuan Jiang , Chao Zhang , Haoran Xu , Shenglin Xu , Jianping Tang , Zheming Li , Peidai Xie , Yongjun Wang

The purpose of continuous fuzzing platforms is to enable fuzzing for software projects via \emph{fuzz harnesses} -- but as the projects continue to evolve, are these harnesses updated in lockstep, or do they run out of date? If these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Philipp Görz , Joschua Schilling , Thorsten Holz , Marcel Böhme

Solidity compiler plays a key role in enabling the development of smart contract applications on Ethereum by governing the syntax of a domain-specific language called Solidity and performing compilation and optimization of Solidity code.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Haoyang Ma , Wuqi Zhang , Qingchao Shen , Yongqiang Tian , Junjie Chen , Shing-Chi Cheung

Existing LLM-based compiler fuzzers often produce syntactically or semantically invalid test programs, limiting their effectiveness in exercising compiler optimizations and backend components. We introduce ReFuzzer, a framework for refining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-02 Iti Shree , Karine Even-Mendoza , Tomasz Radzik

Quantum computing has emerged as a promising domain for the machine learning (ML) area, offering significant computational advantages over classical counterparts. With the growing interest in quantum machine learning (QML), ensuring the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Pengzhan Zhao , Xiongfei Wu , Junjie Luo , Zhuo Li , Jianjun Zhao

Fuzz testing, or fuzzing, has become one of the de facto standard techniques for bug finding in the software industry. In general, fuzzing provides various inputs to the target program to discover unhandled exceptions and crashes. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Yifan Wang , Yuchen Zhang , Chengbin Pang , Peng Li , Nikolaos Triandopoulos , Jun Xu

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

Information leakage is a class of error that can lead to severe consequences. However unlike other errors, it is rarely explicitly considered during the software testing process. LeakFuzzer advances the state of the art by using a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Daniel Blackwell , Ingolf Becker , David Clark

Deep Learning (DL) has been widely adopted in diverse industrial domains, including autonomous driving, intelligent healthcare, and aided programming. Like traditional software, DL systems are also prone to faults, whose malfunctioning may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Hanmo You , Zan Wang , Zishuo Dong , Luanqi Mo , Jianjun Zhao , Junjie Chen

This report outlines the objectives, methodology, challenges, and results of the first Fuzzing Competition held at SBFT 2023. The competition utilized FuzzBench to assess the code-coverage performance and bug-finding efficacy of eight…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Dongge Liu , Jonathan Metzman , Marcel Böhme , Oliver Chang , Abhishek Arya

Vulnerable software represents a tremendous threat to modern information systems. Vulnerabilities in widespread applications may be used to spread malware, steal money and conduct target attacks. To address this problem, developers and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Maksim Shudrak , Vyacheslav Zolotarev

Directed fuzzing is a dynamic testing technique that focuses exploration on specific, pre targeted program locations. Like other types of fuzzers, directed fuzzers are most effective when maximizing testing speed and precision. To this end,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Chaitra Niddodi , Stefan Nagy , Darko Marinov , Sibin Mohan

The ever-increasing complexity of design specifications for processors and intellectual property (IP) presents a formidable challenge for early bug detection in the modern IC design cycle. The recent advancements in hardware fuzzing have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Raghul Saravanan , Sai Manoj P D

Fuzz testing to find semantic control vulnerabilities is an essential activity to evaluate the robustness of autonomous driving (AD) software. Whilst there is a preponderance of disparate fuzzing tools that target different parts of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Andrew Roberts , Lorenz Teply , Mert D. Pese , Olaf Maennel , Mohammad Hamad , Sebastian Steinhorst

Fuzz testing has become a cornerstone technique for identifying software bugs and security vulnerabilities, with broad adoption in both industry and open-source communities. Directly fuzzing a function requires fuzz drivers, which translate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Paschal C. Amusuo , Dongge Liu , Ricardo Andres Calvo Mendez , Jonathan Metzman , Oliver Chang , James C. Davis

Fuzz testing (fuzzing) is a well-known method for exposing bugs/vulnerabilities in software systems. Popular fuzzers, such as AFL, use a biased random search over the domain of program inputs, where 100s or 1000s of inputs (test cases) are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yuntong Zhang , Ridwan Shariffdeen , Gregory J. Duck , Jiaqi Tan , Abhik Roychoudhury

The past few years have seen a surge of applying Deep Learning (DL) models for a wide array of tasks such as image classification, object detection, machine translation, etc. While DL models provide an opportunity to solve otherwise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Cheng Li , Abdul Dakkak , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu
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