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A recent trend towards running more demanding web applications, such as video games or client-side LLMs, in the browser has led to the adoption of the WebGPU standard that provides a cross-platform API exposing the GPU to websites. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Lukas Bernhard , Nico Schiller , Moritz Schloegel , Nils Bars , Thorsten Holz

Fuzzing is a powerful software testing technique renowned for its effectiveness in identifying software vulnerabilities. Traditional fuzzing evaluations typically focus on overall fuzzer performance across a set of target programs, yet few…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Miao Miao

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

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

Taint-style vulnerabilities comprise a majority of fuzzer discovered program faults. These vulnerabilities usually manifest as memory access violations caused by tainted program input. Although fuzzers have helped uncover a majority of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Bhargava Shastry , Federico Maggi , Fabian Yamaguchi , Konrad Rieck , Jean-Pierre Seifert

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Peng Chen , Yuxuan Xie , Yunlong Lyu , Yuxiao Wang , Hao Chen

MLIR (Multi-Level Intermediate Representation) has rapidly become a foundational technology for modern compiler frameworks, enabling extensibility across diverse domains. However, ensuring the correctness and robustness of MLIR itself…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Zeyu Sun , Jingjing Liang , Weiyi Wang , Chenyao Suo , Junjie Chen , Fanjiang Xu

Fuzzing is an important method to discover vulnerabilities in programs. Despite considerable progress in this area in the past years, measuring and comparing the effectiveness of fuzzers is still an open research question. In software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Philipp Görz , Björn Mathis , Keno Hassler , Emre Güler , Thorsten Holz , Andreas Zeller , Rahul Gopinath

Fuzzing is a widely used technique for detecting vulnerabilities in smart contracts, which generates transaction sequences to explore the execution paths of smart contracts. However, existing fuzzers are falling short in detecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jie Chen , Liangmin Wang

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…

Fuzzing is a powerful technique for finding bugs in software libraries, but scaling it remains difficult. Automated harness generation commits to fixed API sequences at synthesis time, limiting the behaviors each harness can test.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Harrison Green , Fraser Brown , Claire Le Goues

Fuzzing is a popular bug detection technique achieved by testing software executables with random inputs. This technique can also be extended to libraries by constructing executables that call library APIs, known as fuzz drivers. Automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Yehong Zhang , Jun Wu , Hui Xu

Crafting high-quality fuzz drivers not only is time-consuming but also requires a deep understanding of the library. However, the state-of-the-art automatic fuzz driver generation techniques fall short of expectations. While fuzz drivers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yunlong Lyu , Yuxuan Xie , Peng Chen , Hao Chen

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

Fuzzing has proven to be a fundamental technique to automated software testing but also a costly one. With the increased adoption of CI/CD practices in software development, a natural question to ask is `What are the best ways to integrate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Thijs Klooster , Fatih Turkmen , Gerben Broenink , Ruben ten Hove , Marcel Böhme

Fuzz testing (or fuzzing) is an effective technique used to find security vulnerabilities. It consists of feeding a software under test with malformed inputs, waiting for a weird system behaviour (often a crash of the system). Over the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Marcello Maugeri , Cristian Daniele , Giampaolo Bella , Erik Poll

Coverage-based graybox fuzzer (CGF), such as AFL has gained great success in vulnerability detection thanks to its ease-of-use and bug-finding power. Since some code fragments such as memory allocation are more vulnerable than others,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Wenshuo Wang , Liang Cheng , Yang Zhang

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

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

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