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Collaborative fuzzing combines multiple individual fuzzers and dynamically chooses appropriate combinations for different programs. Unlike individual fuzzers that rely on specific assumptions, collaborative fuzzing relaxes assumptions on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Wenxuan Shi , Hongwei Li , Jiahao Yu , Xinqian Sun , Wenbo Guo , Xinyu Xing

Directed fuzzing focuses on automatically testing specific parts of the code by taking advantage of additional information such as (partial) bug stack trace, patches or risky operations. Key applications include bug reproduction, patch…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Manh-Dung Nguyen , Sébastien Bardin , Richard Bonichon , Roland Groz , Matthieu Lemerre

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

Crafting high-quality fuzz drivers not only is time-consuming but also requires a deep understanding of the library. However, the state-of-the-art automatic fuzz driver generation techniques fall short of expectations. While fuzz drivers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yunlong Lyu , Yuxuan Xie , Peng Chen , Hao Chen

Java (de)serialization is prone to causing security-critical vulnerabilities that attackers can invoke existing methods (gadgets) on the application's classpath to construct a gadget chain to perform malicious behaviors. Several techniques…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Sicong Cao , Xiaobing Sun , Xiaoxue Wu , Lili Bo , Bin Li , Rongxin Wu , Wei Liu , Biao He , Yu Ouyang , Jiajia Li

Understanding and explaining the structure of generated test inputs is essential for effective software testing and debugging. Existing approaches--including grammar-based fuzzers, probabilistic Context-Free Grammars (pCFGs), and Large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Annaëlle Baiget , Jaron Maene , Seongmin Lee , Benjie Wang , Guy Van den Broeck , Miryung Kim

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

Greybox fuzzing is one of the most useful and effective techniques for the bug detection in large scale application programs. It uses minimal amount of instrumentation. American Fuzzy Lop (AFL) is a popular coverage based evolutionary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ketan Patil , Aditya Kanade

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

Bounded model checking (BMC) and fuzzing techniques are among the most effective methods for detecting errors and security vulnerabilities in software. However, there are still shortcomings in detecting these errors due to the inability of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Kaled M. Alshmrany , Mohannad Aldughaim , Ahmed Bhayat , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Fuzzing is utilized for testing software and systems for cybersecurity risk via the automated adaptation of inputs. It facilitates the identification of software bugs and misconfigurations that may create vulnerabilities, cause abnormal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Jack Hance , Jeremy Straub

In recent years, fuzz testing has proven itself to be one of the most effective techniques for finding correctness bugs and security vulnerabilities in practice. One particular fuzz testing tool, American Fuzzy Lop or AFL, has become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Caroline Lemieux , Koushik Sen

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

Fingerprinting of services and operating systems is an essential part of penetration tests. In order to successfully penetrate the computing system's security measurements, preexisting fingerprinting methods are described and the paradigm…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Michael Hanspach

Mutation-based fuzzing is effective for uncovering compiler bugs, but designing high-quality mutators for modern languages with complex constructs (e.g., templates, macros) remains challenging. Existing methods rely heavily on manual design…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Bo Wang , Pengyang Wang , Chong Chen , Ming Deng , Jieke Shi , Qi Sun , Chengran Yang , Youfang Lin , Zhou Yang , Junjie Chen , Jun Sun , David Lo

Mutation-based fuzzing typically uses an initial set of non-crashing seed inputs (a corpus) from which to generate new inputs by mutation. A corpus of potential seeds will often contain thousands of similar inputs. This lack of diversity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Adrian Herrera , Hendra Gunadi , Liam Hayes , Shane Magrath , Felix Friedlander , Maggi Sebastian , Michael Norrish , Antony L. Hosking

Programs expecting structured inputs often consist of both a syntactic analysis stage, which parses raw input, and a semantic analysis stage, which conducts checks on the parsed input and executes the core logic of the program.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Rohan Padhye , Caroline Lemieux , Koushik Sen , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

Hybrid testing approaches that involve fuzz testing and symbolic execution have shown promising results in achieving high code coverage, uncovering subtle errors and vulnerabilities in a variety of software applications. In this paper we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Yannic Noller , Rody Kersten , Corina S. Păsăreanu

Generative Bayesian Filtering (GBF) provides a powerful and flexible framework for performing posterior inference in complex nonlinear and non-Gaussian state-space models. Our approach extends Generative Bayesian Computation (GBC) to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-07 Edoardo Marcelli , Sean O'Hagan , Veronika Rockova

Testing is essential to modern software engineering for building reliable software. Given the high costs of manually creating test cases, automated test case generation, particularly methods utilizing large language models, has become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yifeng He , Jicheng Wang , Yuyang Rong , Hao Chen
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