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Fuzzing is a commonly used technique designed to test software by automatically crafting program inputs. Currently, the most successful fuzzing algorithms emphasize simple, low-overhead strategies with the ability to efficiently monitor…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-20 William Drozd , Michael D. Wagner

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

Large language model (LLM)-based techniques have achieved notable progress in generating harnesses for program fuzzing. However, applying them to arbitrary functions (especially internal functions) \textit{at scale} remains challenging due…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Kang Yang , Yunhang Zhang , Zichuan Li , Guanhong Tao , Jun Xu , Xiaojing Liao

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

The ever-increasing complexity of design specifications for processors and intellectual property (IP) presents a formidable challenge for early bug detection in the modern IC design cycle. The recent advancements in hardware fuzzing have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Raghul Saravanan , Sai Manoj P D

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in code intelligence tasks such as code generation, summarization, and translation. However, their reliance on linearized token sequences limits their ability to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zeqi Chen , Zhaoyang Chu , Yi Gui , Feng Guo , Yao Wan , Chuan Shi

Most software that runs on computers undergoes processing by compilers. Since compilers constitute the fundamental infrastructure of software development, their correctness is paramount. Over the years, researchers have invested in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Haoyang Ma

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, are increasingly leveraged for generating both traditional software code and spreadsheet logic. Despite their impressive generative capabilities, these models frequently exhibit critical issues…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Simon Thorne , Advait Sarkar

Coverage-guided Greybox Fuzzing (CGF) is one of the most successful and widely-used techniques for bug hunting. Two major approaches are adopted to optimize CGF: (i) to reduce search space of inputs by inferring relationships between input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Kunpeng Zhang , Xi Xiao , Xiaogang Zhu , Ruoxi Sun , Minhui Xue , Sheng Wen

Large language models (LLMs) are widely used in software development. However, the code generated by LLMs often contains vulnerabilities. Several secure code generation methods have been proposed to address this issue, but their current…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Shih-Chieh Dai , Jun Xu , Guanhong Tao

Current Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced automated unit test generation but face a critical limitation: they often neglect to construct the necessary test fixtures, which are the environmental setups required for a test to run. To…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Chengyi Wang , Pengyu Xue , Zhen Yang , Xiapu Luo , Yuxuan Zhang , Xiran Lyu , Yifei Pei , Zonghan Jia , Yichen Sun , Linhao Wu , Kunwu Zheng

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising results in automatic code generation by improving coding efficiency to a certain extent. However, generating high-quality and reliable code remains a formidable task because of LLMs' lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Xiaoxue Ren , Xinyuan Ye , Dehai Zhao , Zhenchang Xing , Xiaohu Yang

Fuzzing is an automated application vulnerability detection method. For genetic algorithm-based fuzzing, it can mutate the seed files provided by users to obtain a number of inputs, which are then used to test the objective application in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Chenyang Lyu , Shouling Ji , Yuwei Li , Junfeng Zhou , Jianhai Chen , Jing Chen

FuSeBMC is a test generator for finding security vulnerabilities in C programs. In earlier work [4], we described a previous version that incrementally injected labels to guide Bounded Model Checking (BMC) and Evolutionary Fuzzing engines…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Kaled M. Alshmrany , Mohannad Aldughaim , Ahmed Bhayat , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Database Management System (DBMS) fuzzing is an automated testing technique aimed at detecting errors and vulnerabilities in DBMSs by generating, mutating, and executing test cases. It not only reduces the time and cost of manual testing…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Xiyue Gao , Zhuang Liu , Jiangtao Cui , Hui Li , Hui Zhang , Kewei Wei , Kankan Zhao

As machine learning gains prominence in various sectors of society for automated decision-making, concerns have risen regarding potential vulnerabilities in machine learning (ML) frameworks. Nevertheless, testing these frameworks is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Zhao Liu , Quanchen Zou , Tian Yu , Xuan Wang , Guozhu Meng , Kai Chen , Deyue Zhang

Appropriate test case generation is critical in software testing, significantly impacting the quality of the testing. Requirements-Based Test Generation (RBTG) derives test cases from software requirements, aiming to verify whether or not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zhenzhen Yang , Chenhui Cui , Tao Li , Rubing Huang , Nan Niu , Dave Towey , Shikai Guo

Directed fuzzing performs best for targeted program testing via estimating the impact of each input in reaching predefined program points. But due to insufficient analysis of the program structure and lack of flexibility and configurability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 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
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