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We propose a tool, called FuzzingDriver, to generate dictionary tokens for coverage-based greybox fuzzers (CGF) from the codebase of any target program. FuzzingDriver does not add any overhead to the fuzzing job as it is run beforehand. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Arash Ale Ebrahim , Mohammadreza Hazhirpasand , Oscar Nierstrasz , Mohammad Ghafari

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

High scalability and low running costs have made fuzz testing the de facto standard for discovering software bugs. Fuzzing techniques are constantly being improved in a race to build the ultimate bug-finding tool. However, while fuzzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Ahmad Hazimeh , Adrian Herrera , Mathias Payer

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

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Viet Hoang Luu , Amirmohammad Pasdar , Wachiraphan Charoenwet , Toby Murray , Shaanan Cohney , Van-Thuan Pham

As with any fuzzer, directing Generator-Based Fuzzers (GBF) to reach particular code targets can increase the fuzzer's effectiveness. In previous work, coverage-guided fuzzers used a mix of static analysis, taint analysis, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Soha Hussein , Stephen McCamant , Mike Whalen

Fuzzing has been an important approach for finding bugs and vulnerabilities in programs. Many fuzzers deployed in industry run daily and can generate an overwhelming number of crashes. Diagnosing such crashes can be very challenging and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ashwin Kallingal Joshy , Wei Le

Fuzzing consists of repeatedly testing an application with modified, or fuzzed, inputs with the goal of finding security vulnerabilities in input-parsing code. In this paper, we show how to automate the generation of an input grammar…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Patrice Godefroid , Hila Peleg , Rishabh Singh

Firmware serves as the critical interface between hardware and software in computing systems, making any bugs or vulnerabilities particularly dangerous as they can cause catastrophic system failures. While fuzzing is a promising approach…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Dakshina Tharindu , Aruna Jayasena , Prabhat Mishra

Protocol fuzzing is a scalable and cost-effective technique for identifying security vulnerabilities in deployed Internet of Things devices. During their operational phase, IoT devices often run lightweight servers to handle user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Priyanka Rushikesh Chaudhary , Rajib Ranjan Maiti

Coverage-guided fuzzing has been widely applied to address zero-day vulnerabilities in general-purpose software and operating systems. This approach relies on instrumenting the target code at compile time. However, applying it to industrial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Carmine Cesarano , Roberto Natella

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

Grammar-based fuzzing is a technique used to find software vulnerabilities by injecting well-formed inputs generated following rules that encode application semantics. Most grammar-based fuzzers for network protocols rely on human experts…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Samuel Jero , Maria Leonor Pacheco , Dan Goldwasser , Cristina Nita-Rotaru

Network applications are routinely under attack. We consider the problem of developing an effective and efficient fuzzer for the recently ratified QUIC network protocol to uncover security vulnerabilities. QUIC offers a unified transport…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kian Kai Ang , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Fuzzing -- whether generating or mutating inputs -- has found many bugs and security vulnerabilities in a wide range of domains. Stateful and highly structured web APIs present significant challenges to traditional fuzzing techniques, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Zac Hatfield-Dodds , Dmitry Dygalo

Mutation-based fuzzing is popular and effective in discovering unseen code and exposing bugs. However, only a few studies have concentrated on quantifying the importance of input bytes, which refers to the degree to which a byte contributes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kunpeng Zhang , Xiaogang Zhu , Xi Xiao , Minhui Xue , Chao Zhang , Sheng Wen

Of coverage-guided fuzzing's three main components: (1) testcase generation, (2) code coverage tracing, and (3) crash triage, code coverage tracing is a dominant source of overhead. Coverage-guided fuzzers trace every testcase's code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Stefan Nagy , Matthew Hicks

Command-line interface (CLI) fuzzing tests programs by mutating both command-line options and input file contents, thus enabling discovery of vulnerabilities that only manifest under specific option-input combinations. Prior works of CLI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Momoko Shiraishi , Yinzhi Cao , Takahiro Shinagawa

Deep Learning (DL) library bugs affect downstream DL applications, emphasizing the need for reliable systems. Generating valid input programs for fuzzing DL libraries is challenging due to the need for satisfying both language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yinlin Deng , Chunqiu Steven Xia , Chenyuan Yang , Shizhuo Dylan Zhang , Shujing Yang , Lingming Zhang

Computer programs are not executed in isolation, but rather interact with the execution environment which drives the program behaviors. Software validation methods thus need to capture the effect of possibly complex environmental…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ruijie Meng , Gregory J. Duck , Abhik Roychoudhury