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Greybox protocol fuzzing is a random testing approach for stateful protocol implementations, where the input is protocol messages generated from mutations of seeds, and the search in the input space is driven by the feedback on coverage of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yu Wang , Yang Xiang , Chandra Thapa , Hajime Suzuki

The statefulness property of network protocol implementations poses a unique challenge for testing and verification techniques, including Fuzzing. Stateful fuzzers tackle this challenge by leveraging state models to partition the state…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Dongge Liu , Van-Thuan Pham , Gidon Ernst , Toby Murray , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Fuzzing network servers is a technical challenge, since the behavior of the target server depends on its state over a sequence of multiple messages. Existing solutions are costly and difficult to use, as they rely on manually-customized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Roberto Natella

As one of the most successful and effective software testing techniques in recent years, fuzz testing has uncovered numerous bugs and vulnerabilities in modern software, including network protocol software. In contrast to other fuzzing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Shihao Jiang , Yu Zhang , Junqiang Li , Hongfang Yu , Long Luo , Gang Sun

Stateful Coverage-Based Greybox Fuzzing (SCGF) is considered the state-of-the-art method for network protocol greybox fuzzing. During the protocol fuzzing process, SCGF constructs the state machine of the target protocol by identifying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Liu Yu , Shen Yanlong , Zhou Ying

With the rapid growth of IoT, secure and efficient mesh networking has become essential. Thread has emerged as a key protocol, widely used in smart-home and commercial systems, and serving as a core transport layer in the Matter standard.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Ilja Siroš , Jakob Heirwegh , Dave Singelée , Bart Preneel

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…

Communication protocols form the bedrock of our interconnected world, yet vulnerabilities within their implementations pose significant security threats. Recent developments have seen a surge in fuzzing-based research dedicated to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xiaohan Zhang , Cen Zhang , Xinghua Li , Zhengjie Du , Bing Mao , Yuekang Li , Yaowen Zheng , Yeting Li , Li Pan , Yang Liu , Robert H. Deng

Greybox fuzzing has been widely used in stateless programs and has achieved great success. However, most state-of-the-art greybox fuzzers generally have the problems of slow speed and shallow state depth coverage in the process of fuzzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Junqiang Li , Senyi Li , Gang Sun , Ting Chen , Hongfang Yu

Greybox fuzzing is one of the most useful and effective techniques for the bug detection in large scale application programs. It uses minimal amount of instrumentation. American Fuzzy Lop (AFL) is a popular coverage based evolutionary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ketan Patil , Aditya Kanade

Grey-box fuzzers such as American Fuzzy Lop (AFL) are popular tools for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities in programs. While these fuzzers have been able to find vulnerabilities in many widely used programs, they are not efficient;…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Siddharth Karamcheti , Gideon Mann , David Rosenberg

Network applications are routinely under attack. We consider the problem of developing an effective and efficient fuzzer for the recently ratified QUIC network protocol to uncover security vulnerabilities. QUIC offers a unified transport…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kian Kai Ang , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Fuzz testing, or fuzzing, has become one of the de facto standard techniques for bug finding in the software industry. In general, fuzzing provides various inputs to the target program to discover unhandled exceptions and crashes. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Yifan Wang , Yuchen Zhang , Chengbin Pang , Peng Li , Nikolaos Triandopoulos , Jun Xu

In recent years, fuzz testing has proven itself to be one of the most effective techniques for finding correctness bugs and security vulnerabilities in practice. One particular fuzz testing tool, American Fuzzy Lop or AFL, has become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Caroline Lemieux , Koushik Sen

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

We present a coverage-guided testing algorithm for distributed systems implementations. Our main innovation is the use of an abstract formal model of the system that is used to define coverage. Such abstract models are frequently developed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ege Berkay Gulcan , Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan , Rupak Majumdar , Srinidhi Nagendra

Fuzzing is one of the prevailing methods for vulnerability detection. However, even state-of-the-art fuzzing methods become ineffective after some period of time, i.e., the coverage hardly improves as existing methods are ineffective to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Shunkai Zhu , Jingyi Wang , Jun Sun , Jie Yang , Xingwei Lin , Liyi Zhang , Peng Cheng

Many protocol implementations are reactive systems, where the protocol process is in continuous interaction with other processes and the environment. If a bug can be exposed only in a certain state, a fuzzer needs to provide a specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jinsheng Ba , Marcel Böhme , Zahra Mirzamomen , Abhik Roychoudhury

In recent years, fuzzing has been widely applied not only to application software but also to system software, including the Linux kernel and firmware, and has become a powerful technique for vulnerability discovery. Among these approaches,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Masami Ichikawa

In recent years, coverage-based greybox fuzzing has proven itself to be one of the most effective techniques for finding security bugs in practice. Particularly, American Fuzzy Lop (AFL for short) is deemed to be a great success in fuzzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Junjie Wang , Bihuan Chen , Lei Wei , Yang Liu
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