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Program analysis and automated testing have recently become an essential part of SSDLC. Directed greybox fuzzing is one of the most popular automated testing methods that focuses on error detection in predefined code regions. However, it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Darya Parygina , Timofey Mezhuev , Daniil Kuts

Fuzzing is an effective technique for discovering software vulnerabilities by generating random test inputs and executing them against the target program. However, fuzzing large and complex programs remains challenging due to difficulties…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Dongdong She , Adam Storek , Yuchong Xie , Seoyoung Kweon , Prashast Srivastava , Suman Jana

Fuzzing -- testing programs with random inputs -- has become the prime technique to detect bugs and vulnerabilities in programs. To generate inputs that cover new functionality, fuzzers require execution feedback from the program -- for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Rahul Gopinath , Bachir Bendrissou , Björn Mathis , Andreas Zeller

This paper presents a novel fuzzing framework, called MicroFuzz, specifically designed for Microservices. Mocking-Assisted Seed Execution, Distributed Tracing, Seed Refresh and Pipeline Parallelism approaches are adopted to address the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Peng Di , Bingchang Liu , Yiyi Gao

Fuzz testing has enjoyed great success at discovering security critical bugs in real software. Recently, researchers have devoted significant effort to devising new fuzzing techniques, strategies, and algorithms. Such new ideas are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-22 George Klees , Andrew Ruef , Benji Cooper , Shiyi Wei , Michael Hicks

Greybox fuzzing is the de-facto standard to discover bugs during development. Fuzzers execute many inputs to maximize the amount of reached code. Recently, Directed Greybox Fuzzers (DGFs) propose an alternative strategy that goes beyond…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Han Zheng , Jiayuan Zhang , Yuhang Huang , Zezhong Ren , He Wang , Chunjie Cao , Yuqing Zhang , Flavio Toffalini , Mathias Payer

Recent efforts in practical symbolic execution have successfully mitigated the path-explosion problem to some extent with search-based heuristics and compositional approaches. Similarly, due to an increase in the performance of cheap…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Saahil Ognawala , Ana Petrovska , Kristian Beckers

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

Coverage guided fuzzing (CGF) is an effective testing technique which has detected hundreds of thousands of bugs from various software applications. It focuses on maximizing code coverage to reveal more bugs during fuzzing. However, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Ruixiang Qian , Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Lihua Guo

Fuzzers and static analyzers find many bugs but struggle with logic bugs in mature codebases. Triggering such a bug often requires multi-step reasoning that produces no distinctive execution feedback, and variants can appear across…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Junyoung Park , Insu Yun

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

A fuzzer provides randomly generated inputs to a targeted software to expose erroneous behavior. To efficiently detect defects, generated inputs should conform to the structure of the input format and thus, grammars can be used to generate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Martin Eberlein , Yannic Noller , Thomas Vogel , Lars Grunske

Greybox fuzzing has emerged as a preferred technique for discovering software bugs, striking a balance between efficiency and depth of exploration. While research has focused on improving fuzzing techniques, the importance of high-quality…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Wenxuan Shi , Yunhang Zhang , Xinyu Xing , Jun Xu

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

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

The importance of addressing security vulnerabilities is indisputable, with software becoming crucial in sectors such as national defense and finance. Consequently, The security issues caused by software vulnerabilities cannot be ignored.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Liqun Yang , Chunan Li , Yongxin Qiu , Chaoren Wei , Jian Yang , Hongcheng Guo , Jinxin Ma , Zhoujun Li

Internet of Things (IoT) devices offer convenience through web interfaces, web VPNs, and other web-based services, all relying on the HTTP protocol. However, these externally exposed HTTP services resent significant security risks. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Zhe Yang , Hao Peng , Yanling Jiang , Xingwei Li , Haohua Du , Shuhai Wang , Jianwei Liu

Fuzzing continues to be the most effective method for identifying security vulnerabilities in software. In the context of fuzz testing, the fuzzer supplies varied inputs to fuzz targets, which are designed to comprehensively exercise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chi Thien Tran

GPUs play an increasingly important role in modern software. However, the heterogeneous host-device execution model and expanding software stacks make GPU programs prone to memory-safety and concurrency bugs that evade static analysis.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Mohamed Tarek Ibn ziad , Christos Kozyrakis

Software vulnerabilities are constantly being reported and exploited in software products, causing significant impacts on society. In recent years, the main approach to vulnerability detection, fuzzing, has been integrated into the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Tatsuya Shirai , Olivier Nourry , Yutaro Kashiwa , Kenji Fujiwara , Yasutaka Kamei , Hajimu Iida