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LLM-based (Large Language Model) fuzz driver generation is a promising research area. Unlike traditional program analysis-based method, this text-based approach is more general and capable of harnessing a variety of API usage information,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Cen Zhang , Yaowen Zheng , Mingqiang Bai , Yeting Li , Wei Ma , Xiaofei Xie , Yuekang Li , Limin Sun , Yang Liu

Fuzzing is effective for vulnerability discovery but struggles with complex targets such as compilers, interpreters, and database engines, which accept textual input that must satisfy intricate syntactic and semantic constraints. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jiayi Lin , Liangcai Su , Junzhe Li , Chenxiong Qian

Bugs in operating system kernels can affect billions of devices and users all over the world. As a result, a large body of research has been focused on kernel fuzzing, i.e., automatically generating syscall (system call) sequences to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Chenyuan Yang , Zijie Zhao , Lingming Zhang

Software model checking is a verification technique which is widely used for checking temporal properties of software systems. Even though it is a property verification technique, its common usage in practice is in "bug finding", that is,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Ruijie Meng , Zhen Dong , Jialin Li , Ivan Beschastnikh , Abhik Roychoudhury

Large Language Models (LLMs) have excelled in various tasks but are still vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks, where attackers create jailbreak prompts to mislead the model to produce harmful or offensive content. Current jailbreak methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xueluan Gong , Mingzhe Li , Yilin Zhang , Fengyuan Ran , Chen Chen , Yanjiao Chen , Qian Wang , Kwok-Yan Lam

In recent years, the programming capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have garnered significant attention. Fuzz testing, a highly effective technique, plays a key role in enhancing software reliability and detecting vulnerabilities.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hanxiang Xu , Wei Ma , Ting Zhou , Yanjie Zhao , Kai Chen , Qiang Hu , Yang Liu , Haoyu Wang

Greybox fuzzing has made impressive progress in recent years, evolving from heuristics-based random mutation to approaches for solving individual path constraints. However, they have difficulty solving path constraints that involve deeply…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Peng Chen , Jianzhong Liu , Hao Chen

Modern computing systems heavily rely on hardware as the root of trust. However, their increasing complexity has given rise to security-critical vulnerabilities that cross-layer at-tacks can exploit. Traditional hardware vulnerability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Mohamadreza Rostami , Marco Chilese , Shaza Zeitouni , Rahul Kande , Jeyavijayan Rajendran , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

In mutation-based greybox fuzzing, generating high-quality input seeds for the initial corpus is essential for effective fuzzing. Rather than conducting separate phases for generating a large corpus and subsequently minimizing it, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Hridya Dhulipala , Xiaokai Rong , Aashish Yadavally , Tien N. Nguyen

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

Deep Learning (DL) frameworks have served as fundamental components in DL systems over the last decade. However, bugs in DL frameworks could lead to catastrophic consequences in critical scenarios. A simple yet effective way to find bugs in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shaoyu Yang , Chunrong Fang , Haifeng Lin , Xiang Chen , Jia Liu , Zhenyu Chen

Mutation-based fuzzing has become one of the most common vulnerability discovery solutions over the last decade. Fuzzing can be optimized when targeting specific programs, and given that, some studies have employed online optimization…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Yuki Koike , Hiroyuki Katsura , Hiromu Yakura , Yuma Kurogome

Bug reports contain the information developers need to triage and fix software bugs. However, unclear, incomplete, or ambiguous information may lead to delays and excessive manual effort spent on bug triage and resolution. In this paper, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jagrit Acharya , Gouri Ginde

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

Large language models (LLMs) have recently shown strong reasoning capabilities beyond traditional language tasks, motivating their use for numerical optimization. This paper presents LLMize, an open-source Python framework that enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 M. Rizki Oktavian

Software fuzzing is a strong testing technique that has become the de facto approach for automated software testing and software vulnerability detection in the industry. The random nature of fuzzing makes monitoring and understanding the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Aftab Hussain , Mohammad Amin Alipour

Fuzzing has shown great success in evaluating the robustness of intelligent natural language processing (NLP) software. As large language model (LLM)-based NLP software is widely deployed in critical industries, existing methods still face…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mingxuan Xiao , Yan Xiao , Shunhui Ji , Jiahe Tu , Pengcheng Zhang

Fuzzy reasoning is vital due to the frequent use of imprecise information in daily contexts. However, the ability of current large language models (LLMs) to handle such reasoning remains largely uncharted. In this paper, we introduce a new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yiyuan Li , Shichao Sun , Pengfei Liu

System logs are a cornerstone of cybersecurity, supporting proactive breach prevention and post-incident investigations. However, analyzing vast amounts of diverse log data remains significantly challenging, as high costs, lack of in-house…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Peng Cai , Reza Ryan , Nickson M. Karie

Many advanced program analysis and verification methods are based on solving systems of Constrained Horn Clauses (CHC). Testing CHC solvers is very important, as correctness of their work determines whether bugs in the analyzed programs are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Anzhela Sukhanova , Valentyn Sobol
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