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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…
As researchers, we already understand how to make testing more effective and efficient at finding bugs. However, as fuzzing (i.e., automated testing) becomes more widely adopted in practice, practitioners are asking: Which assurances does a…
Fuzzing is one of the most effective approaches to finding software flaws. However, applying it to microcontroller firmware incurs many challenges. For example, rehosting-based solutions cannot accurately model peripheral behaviors and thus…
Library fuzzing is essential for hardening the software supply chain, but adopting it at scale remains expensive. Practitioners still spend substantial effort on environment setup, struggle to generate harnesses that respect intricate API…
Fuzzing REST APIs is an important research problem, with practical applications and impact in industry. As such, a lot of research work has been carried out on this topic in the last few years. However, there are three major issues that…
A greybox fuzzer is an automated software testing tool that generates new test inputs by applying randomly chosen mutators (e.g., flipping a bit or deleting a block of bytes) to a seed input in random order and adds all coverage-increasing…
Despite the fact that the state-of-the-art fuzzers can generate inputs efficiently, existing fuzz drivers still cannot adequately cover entries in libraries. Most of these fuzz drivers are crafted manually by developers, and their quality…
MLFuzz, a work accepted at ACM FSE 2023, revisits the performance of a machine learning-based fuzzer, NEUZZ. We demonstrate that its main conclusion is entirely wrong due to several fatal bugs in the implementation and wrong evaluation…
A fundamental problem in cybersecurity and computer science is determining whether a program is free of bugs and vulnerabilities. Fuzzing, a popular approach to discovering vulnerabilities in programs, has several advantages over…
How to search for bugs in 1,000 programs using a pre-existing fuzzer and a standard PC? We consider this problem and show that a well-designed strategy that determines which programs to fuzz and for how long can greatly impact the number of…
The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) has become essential to secure inter-domain routing. Despite its critical role, RPKI software remains largely untested beyond shallow parsing. Existing fuzzers, like AFL++ or libFuzzer, do not…
Given the growing importance of smart contracts in various applications, ensuring their security and reliability is critical. Fuzzing, an effective vulnerability detection technique, has recently been widely applied to smart contracts.…
As mobile networks transition to 5G infrastructure, ensuring robust security becomes more important due to the complex architecture and expanded attack surface. Traditional security testing approaches for 5G networks rely on black-box…
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…
Android apps are GUI-based event-driven software and have become ubiquitous in recent years. Obviously, functional correctness is critical for an app's success. However, in addition to crash bugs, non-crashing functional bugs (in short as…
Fuzzing technologies have evolved at a fast pace in recent years, revealing bugs in programs with ever increasing depth and speed. Applications working with complex formats are however more difficult to take on, as inputs need to meet…
Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) have been introduced as essential and popular security gates that inspect incoming HTTP traffic to filter out malicious requests and provide defenses against a diverse array of web-based threats. Evading…
Coverage-guided fuzzers are powerful automated bug-finding tools. They mutate program inputs, observe coverage, and save any input that hits an unexplored path for future mutation. Unfortunately, without knowledge of input formats--for…
Deep learning (DL) libraries are widely used in critical applications, where even subtle silent bugs can lead to serious consequences. While existing DL fuzzing techniques have made progress in detecting crashes, they inherently struggle to…
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…