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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…

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As the complexity of modern processors has increased over the years, developing effective verification strategies to identify bugs prior to manufacturing has become critical. Undiscovered micro-architectural bugs in processors can manifest…

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed across diverse domains, yet their vulnerability to jailbreak attacks, where adversarial inputs bypass safety mechanisms to elicit harmful outputs, poses significant security risks.…

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Correctness and robustness are essential for logic synthesis applications, but they are often only tested with a limited set of benchmarks. Moreover, when the application fails on a large benchmark, the debugging process may be tedious and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Siang-Yun Lee , Heinz Riener , Giovanni De Micheli

Fuzzing is a technique widely used in vulnerability detection. The process usually involves writing effective fuzz driver programs, which, when done manually, can be extremely labor intensive. Previous attempts at automation leave much to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Mingrui Zhang , Jianzhong Liu , Fuchen Ma , Huafeng Zhang , Yu Jiang

Coverage-guided fuzz testing has received significant attention from the research community, with a strong focus on binary applications, greatly disregarding other targets, such as web applications. The importance of the World Wide Web in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Sebastian Neef , Lorenz Kleissner , Jean-Pierre Seifert

Fuzzing has become a widely adopted technique for vulnerability discovery, yet it remains ineffective for structured-input programs due to strict syntactic constraints and limited semantic awareness. Traditional greybox fuzzers rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yihao Zou , Tianming Zheng , Futai Zou , Yue Wu

Modern software often accepts inputs with highly complex grammars. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown that they can be used to synthesize high-quality natural language text and code that conforms to the grammar of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Kunpeng Zhang , Zongjie Li , Daoyuan Wu , Shuai Wang , Xin Xia

Fuzzing has been studied and applied ever since the 1990s. Automated and continuous fuzzing has recently been applied also to open source software projects, including the Linux and BSD kernels. This paper concentrates on the practical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Jukka Ruohonen , Kalle Rindell

Fuzzing is a promising technique for detecting security vulnerabilities. Newly developed fuzzers are typically evaluated in terms of the number of bugs found on vulnerable programs/binaries. However,existing corpora usually do not capture…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Xiaogang Zhu , Xiaotao Feng , Tengyun Jiao , Sheng Wen , Yang Xiang , Seyit Camtepe , Jingling Xue

Fuzzing is a popular vulnerability automated testing method utilized by professionals and broader community alike. However, despite its abilities, fuzzing is a time-consuming, computationally expensive process. This is problematic for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Michael Wang , Michael Robinson

We present an algorithm for synthesizing a context-free grammar encoding the language of valid program inputs from a set of input examples and blackbox access to the program. Our algorithm addresses shortcomings of existing grammar…

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Fuzzing is a popular dynamic program analysis technique used to find vulnerabilities in complex software. Fuzzing involves presenting a target program with crafted malicious input designed to cause crashes, buffer overflows, memory errors,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Mohit Rajpal , William Blum , Rishabh Singh

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…

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Detecting bugs in Deep Learning (DL) libraries (e.g., TensorFlow/PyTorch) is critical for almost all downstream DL systems in ensuring effectiveness/safety for end users. Meanwhile, traditional fuzzing techniques can be hardly effective for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Yinlin Deng , Chunqiu Steven Xia , Haoran Peng , Chenyuan Yang , Lingming Zhang

Grey-box fuzz testing has revealed thousands of vulnerabilities in real-world software owing to its lightweight instrumentation, fast coverage feedback, and dynamic adjusting strategies. However, directly applying grey-box fuzzing to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Hongxu Chen , Shengjian Guo , Yinxing Xue , Yulei Sui , Cen Zhang , Yuekang Li , Haijun Wang , Yang Liu

Fuzzing has become one of the most effective bug finding approach for software. In recent years, 24*7 continuous fuzzing platforms have emerged to test critical pieces of software, e.g., Linux kernel. Though capable of discovering many bugs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Xiaochen Zou , Guoren Li , Weiteng Chen , Hang Zhang , Zhiyun Qian

Real-world programs expecting structured inputs often has a format-parsing stage gating the deeper program space. Neither a mutation-based approach nor a generative approach can provide a solution that is effective and scalable. Large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jie Hu , Qian Zhang , Heng Yin

Large language models (LLMs) have recently experienced tremendous popularity and are widely used from casual conversations to AI-driven programming. However, despite their considerable success, LLMs are not entirely reliable and can give…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Jiahao Yu , Xingwei Lin , Zheng Yu , Xinyu Xing

Processor designs rely on iterative modifications and reuse well-established designs. However, this reuse of prior designs also leads to similar vulnerabilities across multiple processors. As processors grow increasingly complex with…

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