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Ever-increasing design complexity of System-on-Chips (SoCs) led to significant verification challenges. Unlike software, bugs in hardware design are vigorous and eternal i.e., once the hardware is fabricated, it cannot be repaired with any…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Deepak Narayan Gadde , Aman Kumar , Djones Lettnin , Sebastian Simon

Fuzzing is an important dynamic program analysis technique designed for finding vulnerabilities in complex software. Fuzzing involves presenting a target program with crafted malicious input to cause crashes, buffer overflows, memory…

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

Fuzzing is the process of finding security vulnerabilities in input-processing code by repeatedly testing the code with modified inputs. In this paper, we formalize fuzzing as a reinforcement learning problem using the concept of Markov…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Konstantin Böttinger , Patrice Godefroid , Rishabh Singh

As hardware design complexity increases, hardware fuzzing emerges as a promising tool for automating the verification process. However, a significant gap still exists before it can be applied in industry. This paper aims to summarize the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ruiyang Ma , Tianhao Wei , Jiaxi Zhang , Chun Yang , Jiangfang Yi , Guojie Luo

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

Modern fuzzers scale to large, real-world software but often fail to exercise the program states developers consider most fragile or security-critical. Such states are typically deep in the execution space, gated by preconditions, or…

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Deep learning-based code processing models have shown good performance for tasks such as predicting method names, summarizing programs, and comment generation. However, despite the tremendous progress, deep learning models are often prone…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Moshi Wei , Yuchao Huang , Jinqiu Yang , Junjie Wang , Song Wang

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

Many state-of-the-art technologies developed in recent years have been influenced by machine learning to some extent. Most popular at the time of this writing are artificial intelligence methodologies that fall under the umbrella of deep…

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Fuzzing is a commonly used technique designed to test software by automatically crafting program inputs. Currently, the most successful fuzzing algorithms emphasize simple, low-overhead strategies with the ability to efficiently monitor…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-20 William Drozd , Michael D. Wagner

Network protocol parsers are essential for enabling correct and secure communication between devices. Bugs in these parsers can introduce critical vulnerabilities, including memory corruption, information leakage, and denial-of-service…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Mingwei Zheng , Danning Xie , Xiangyu Zhang

Coverage-guided Greybox Fuzzing (CGF) is one of the most successful and widely-used techniques for bug hunting. Two major approaches are adopted to optimize CGF: (i) to reduce search space of inputs by inferring relationships between input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Kunpeng Zhang , Xi Xiao , Xiaogang Zhu , Ruoxi Sun , Minhui Xue , Sheng Wen

Coverage-based graybox fuzzer (CGF), such as AFL has gained great success in vulnerability detection thanks to its ease-of-use and bug-finding power. Since some code fragments such as memory allocation are more vulnerable than others,…

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Objective: Machine learning (ML) models are increasingly used to generate electrical stimulation patterns in neuroprosthetic devices such as visual prostheses. While these models promise precise and personalized control, they also introduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Mara Downing , Matthew Peng , Jacob Granley , Michael Beyeler , Tevfik Bultan

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

Directed fuzzing is a useful testing technique that aims to efficiently reach target code sites in a program. The core of directed fuzzing is the guiding mechanism that directs the fuzzing to the specified target. A general guiding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Weiheng Bai , Kefu Wu , Qiushi Wu , Kangjie Lu

With the advent of modern computer networks, fault diagnosis has been a focus of research activity. This paper reviews the history of fault diagnosis in networks and discusses the main methods in information gathering section, information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Zi Jian Yang , Yong Wang

In the realm of software development, testing is crucial for ensuring software quality and adherence to requirements. However, it can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, especially when dealing with large and complex software systems.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Aron Karatayev , Anna Ogorodova , Pakizar Shamoi