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Software fuzzing has become a cornerstone in automated vulnerability discovery, yet existing mutation strategies often lack semantic awareness, leading to redundant test cases and slow exploration of deep program states. In this work, I…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Shiyin Lin

While AI-coding assistants accelerate software development, current testing frameworks struggle to keep pace with the resulting volume of AI-generated code. Traditional fuzzing techniques often allocate resources uniformly and lack semantic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Ziyi Yang , Kalit Inani , Keshav Kabra , Vima Gupta , Anand Padmanabha Iyer

Network protocols are the foundation of modern communication, yet their implementations often contain semantic vulnerabilities stemming from inadequate understanding of specification semantics. Existing gray-box and black-box testing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yanbang Sun , Quan Luo , Yuelin Wang , Qian Chen , Benjin Liu , Ruiqi Chen , Qing Huang , Xiaohong Li , Junjie Wang

Greybox fuzzing has achieved success in revealing bugs and vulnerabilities in programs. However, randomized mutation strategies have limited the fuzzer's performance on structured data. Specialized fuzzers can handle complex structured…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hongxiang Zhang , Yuyang Rong , Yifeng He , Hao Chen

The Language Server Protocol (LSP) has revolutionized the integration of code intelligence in modern software development. There are approximately 300 LSP server implementations for various languages and 50 editors offering LSP integration.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hengcheng Zhu , Songqiang Chen , Valerio Terragni , Lili Wei , Yepang Liu , Jiarong Wu , Shing-Chi Cheung

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

Fuzzing, a widely-used technique for bug detection, has seen advancements through Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite their potential, LLMs face specific challenges in fuzzing. In this paper, we identified five major challenges of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Yu Jiang , Jie Liang , Fuchen Ma , Yuanliang Chen , Chijin Zhou , Yuheng Shen , Zhiyong Wu , Jingzhou Fu , Mingzhe Wang , ShanShan Li , Quan Zhang

Fuzzing has emerged as a powerful technique for finding security bugs in complicated real-world applications. American fuzzy lop (AFL), a leading fuzzing tool, has demonstrated its powerful bug finding ability through a vast number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Tai D. Nguyen , Long H. Pham , Jun Sun

Fuzzing is an effective bug-finding technique but it struggles with complex systems like JavaScript engines that demand precise grammatical input. Recently, researchers have adopted language models for context-aware mutation in fuzzing to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jueon Eom , Seyeon Jeong , Taekyoung Kwon

Jailbreaking large-language models (LLMs) involves testing their robustness against adversarial prompts and evaluating their ability to withstand prompt attacks that could elicit unauthorized or malicious responses. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Aman Goel , Xian Carrie Wu , Zhe Wang , Dmitriy Bespalov , Yanjun Qi

HTTP/1.1 parsing discrepancies have been the basis for numerous classes of attacks against web servers. Previous techniques for discovering HTTP parsing discrepancies have focused on blackbox differential testing of HTTP gateway servers,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Ben Kallus , Prashant Anantharaman , Michael Locasto , Sean W. Smith

Fuzzing has achieved tremendous success in discovering bugs and vulnerabilities in various software systems. Systems under test (SUTs) that take in programming or formal language as inputs, e.g., compilers, runtime engines, constraint…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Chunqiu Steven Xia , Matteo Paltenghi , Jia Le Tian , Michael Pradel , Lingming Zhang

Industrial control systems (ICS) are vital to modern infrastructure but increasingly vulnerable to cybersecurity threats, particularly through weaknesses in their communication protocols. This paper presents MALF (Multi-Agent LLM Fuzzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Bowei Ning , Xuejun Zong , Kan He

The rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology has transformed people's way of life and has a profound impact on both production and daily activities. However, with the rapid advancement of IoT technology, the security of IoT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mingfei Zeng , Ming Xie , Xixi Zheng , Chunhai Li , Chuan Zhang , Liehuang Zhu

Internet of Things (IoT) consists of a large number of devices connected through a network, which exchange a high volume of data, thereby posing new security, privacy, and trust issues. One way to address these issues is ensuring data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Fatimah Aljaafari , Rafael Menezes , Mustafa A. Mustafa , Lucas C. Cordeiro

The Internet of Things (IoT) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have been two major emerging players in the information technology era. Although there has been significant coverage of their individual capabilities, our literature survey sheds…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Kushal Khatiwada , Jayden Hopper , Joseph Cheatham , Ayan Joshi , Sabur Baidya

Modern fuzzers increasingly use Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate structured inputs, but LLM-driven fuzzing is sensitive to prompt initialization and sampling variance, which can reduce exploration efficiency and lead to redundant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Mario Rodríguez Béjar , B. Romera-Paredes , Jose L. Hernández-Ramos

Internet of Things (IoT) is a system that consists of a large number of smart devices connected through a network. The number of these devices is increasing rapidly, which creates a massive and complex network with a vast amount of data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Fatimah Aljaafari , Lucas C. Cordeiro , Mustafa A. Mustafa

Fuzzing is an important dynamic program analysis technique designed for finding vulnerabilities in complex software. Fuzzing involves presenting a target program with crafted malicious input to cause crashes, buffer overflows, memory…

Fuzz testing is one of the most effective techniques for detecting bugs and vulnerabilities in software. However, as the basis of fuzz testing, automated heuristics often fail to uncover deep or complex vulnerabilities. As a result, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jiongchi Yu , Xiaolin Wen , Sizhe Cheng , Xiaofei Xie , Qiang Hu , Yong Wang