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Rust is a promising programming language that focuses on concurrency, usability, and security. It is used in production code by major industry players and got recommended by government bodies. Rust provides strong security guarantees…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 David Paaßen , Jens-Rene Giesen , Lucas Davi

We describe and evaluate a novel white-box fuzzer for C programs named FuSeBMC, which combines fuzzing and symbolic execution, and applies Bounded Model Checking (BMC) to find security vulnerabilities in C programs. FuSeBMC explores and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Kaled M. Alshmrany , Rafael S. Menezes , Mikhail R. Gadelha , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Hardware virtualization technologies play a significant role in cyber security. On the one hand these technologies enhance security levels, by designing a trusted operating system. On the other hand these technologies can be taken up into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Igor Korkin

Information leakage is a class of error that can lead to severe consequences. However unlike other errors, it is rarely explicitly considered during the software testing process. LeakFuzzer advances the state of the art by using a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Daniel Blackwell , Ingolf Becker , David Clark

Fuzzing is a well-established technique for detecting bugs and vulnerabilities. With the surge of fuzzers and fuzzer platforms being developed such as AFL and OSSFuzz rises the necessity to benchmark these tools' performance. A common…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Timothée Riom , Sabine Houy , Bruno Kreyssig , Alexandre Bartel

While fuzzing has demonstrated its effectiveness in exposing vulnerabilities within embedded firmware, the discovery of crashing test cases is only the first step in improving the security of these critical systems. The subsequent fault…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Boyu Chang , Binbin Zhao , Qiao Zhang , Peiyu Liu , Yuan Tian , Raheem Beyah , Shouling Ji

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

This paper explores the integration of MPI-based synchronization techniques into distributed fuzzing frameworks, highlighting possible substantial performance improvements compared to traditional filesystem-based synchronization methods. By…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Pierciro Caliandro , Matteo Ciccaglione , Alessandro Pellegrini

Security vulnerabilities in Internet-of-Things devices, mobile platforms, and autonomous systems remain critical. Traditional mutation-based fuzzers -- while effectively explore code paths -- primarily perform byte- or bit-level edits…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mengdi Lu , Steven Ding , Furkan Alaca , Philippe Charland

Memory-related errors remain an important cause of software vulnerabilities. While mitigation techniques such as using memory-safe languages are promising solutions, these do not address software resilience and availability. In this paper,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Merve Gülmez , Thomas Nyman , Christoph Baumann , Jan Tobias Mühlberg

Fuzzing has become one of the most popular techniques to identify bugs in software. To improve the fuzzing process, a plethora of techniques have recently appeared in academic literature. However, evaluating and comparing these techniques…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-17 David Paaßen , Sebastian Surminski , Michael Rodler , Lucas Davi

Protocol fuzzing is a scalable and cost-effective technique for identifying security vulnerabilities in deployed Internet of Things devices. During their operational phase, IoT devices often run lightweight servers to handle user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Priyanka Rushikesh Chaudhary , Rajib Ranjan Maiti

Binary-only fuzzing often struggles with achieving thorough code coverage and uncovering hidden vulnerabilities due to limited insight into a program's internal dataflows. Traditional grey-box fuzzers guide test case generation primarily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Kai Feng , Jeremy Singer , Angelos K Marnerides

As industry moves toward chiplet-based designs, the insertion of hardware Trojans poses a significant threat to the security of these systems. These systems rely heavily on cache coherence for coherent data communication, making coherence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Gino A. Chacon , Charles Williams , Johann Knechtel , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Paul V. Gratz

Not long ago, it was thought that only software applications and general purpose digital systems i.e. computers were prone to various types of attacks against their security. The underlying hardware, hardware implementations of these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam , Muhammad Naeem Ayyaz

The rapid expansion of heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) environments has heightened security risks, as resource-constrained devices remain vulnerable to diverse cyberattacks. Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a privacy-preserving…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Saadat Izadi , Mahmood Ahmadi

Fuzzing has proven to be a highly effective approach to uncover software bugs over the past decade. After AFL popularized the groundbreaking concept of lightweight coverage feedback, the field of fuzzing has seen a vast amount of scientific…

Mutation-based fuzzing is popular and effective in discovering unseen code and exposing bugs. However, only a few studies have concentrated on quantifying the importance of input bytes, which refers to the degree to which a byte contributes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kunpeng Zhang , Xiaogang Zhu , Xi Xiao , Minhui Xue , Chao Zhang , Sheng Wen

Almost all modern hardware, from phone SoCs to high-end servers with accelerators, contain memory translation and protection hardware like IOMMUs, firewalls, and lookup tables which make it impossible to reason about, and enforce protection…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Reto Achermann , Nora Hossle , Lukas Humbel , Daniel Schwyn , David Cock , Timothy Roscoe

As cyber threats continue to evolve and diversify, it has become increasingly challenging to identify the root causes of security breaches that occur between periodic security assessments. This paper explores the fundamental importance of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Prakhar Paliwal , Arjun Sable , Manjesh K. Hanawal