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In this work, we set out to conduct the first ground-truth empirical evaluation of state-of-the-art DL fuzzers. Specifically, we first manually created an extensive DL bug benchmark dataset, which includes 627 real-world DL bugs from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Nima Shiri Harzevili , Hung Viet Pham , Song Wang

The combination of computer vision and artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming a broad spectrum of industries by enabling machines to interpret and act upon visual data with high levels of accuracy. As the biggest and by far…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Bin Duan , Tarek Mahmud , Meiru Che , Yan Yan , Naipeng Dong , Dan Dongseong Kim , Guowei Yang

Deep learning (DL) systems are increasingly applied to safety-critical domains such as autonomous driving cars. It is of significant importance to ensure the reliability and robustness of DL systems. Existing testing methodologies always…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Jianmin Guo , Yu Jiang , Yue Zhao , Quan Chen , Jiaguang Sun

Many modern software systems are enabled by deep learning libraries such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. As deep learning is now prevalent, the security of deep learning libraries is a key concern. Fuzzing deep learning libraries presents two…

Fuzzing has been incredibly successful in uncovering bugs and vulnerabilities across diverse software systems. JSON parsers play a vital role in modern software development, and ensuring their reliability is of great importance. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Zhiyuan Zhong , Zhezhen Cao , Zhanwei Zhang

Internet of Things (IoT) devices offer convenience through web interfaces, web VPNs, and other web-based services, all relying on the HTTP protocol. However, these externally exposed HTTP services resent significant security risks. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Zhe Yang , Hao Peng , Yanling Jiang , Xingwei Li , Haohua Du , Shuhai Wang , Jianwei Liu

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

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

Large Language Model (LLM) libraries have emerged as the foundational infrastructure powering today's AI revolution, serving as the backbone for LLM deployment, inference optimization, fine-tuning, and production serving across diverse…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Weipeng Jiang , Xiaoyu Zhang , Xiaofei Xie , Jiongchi Yu , Yuhan Zhi , Shiqing Ma , Chao Shen

Deep learning frameworks (DLFs) have been playing an increasingly important role in this intelligence age since they act as a basic infrastructure for an increasingly wide range of AIbased applications. Meanwhile, as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zengyang Li , Sicheng Wang , Wenshuo Wang , Peng Liang , Ran Mo , Bing Li

Greybox fuzzing is one of the most popular methods for detecting software vulnerabilities, which conducts a biased random search within the program input space. To enhance its effectiveness in achieving deep coverage of program behaviors,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ruijie Meng , Gregory J. Duck , Abhik Roychoudhury

GPU memory errors are a critical threat to deep learning (DL) frameworks, leading to crashes or even security issues. We introduce GPU-Fuzz, a fuzzer locating these issues efficiently by modeling operator parameters as formal constraints.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zihao Li , Hongyi Lu , Yanan Guo , Zhenkai Zhang , Shuai Wang , Fengwei Zhang

Compiler correctness is crucial, as miscompilation can falsify program behaviors, leading to serious consequences. Fuzzing has been studied to uncover compiler defects. However, compiler fuzzing remains challenging: Existing arts focus on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Chenyuan Yang , Yinlin Deng , Runyu Lu , Jiayi Yao , Jiawei Liu , Reyhaneh Jabbarvand , Lingming Zhang

Fuzzing a library requires experts to understand the library usage well and craft high-quality fuzz drivers, which is tricky and tedious. Therefore, many techniques have been proposed to automatically generate fuzz drivers. However, they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yan Li , Wenzhang Yang , Yuekun Wang , Jian Gao , Shaohua Wang , Yinxing Xue , Lijun Zhang

LLM-based (Large Language Model) fuzz driver generation is a promising research area. Unlike traditional program analysis-based method, this text-based approach is more general and capable of harnessing a variety of API usage information,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Cen Zhang , Yaowen Zheng , Mingqiang Bai , Yeting Li , Wei Ma , Xiaofei Xie , Yuekang Li , Limin Sun , Yang Liu

PHP, a dominant scripting language in web development, powers a vast range of websites, from personal blogs to major platforms. While existing research primarily focuses on PHP application-level security issues like code injection, memory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yuancheng Jiang , Chuqi Zhang , Bonan Ruan , Jiahao Liu , Manuel Rigger , Roland Yap , Zhenkai Liang

Fuzzing is a widely used software security testing technique that is designed to identify vulnerabilities in systems by providing invalid or unexpected input. Continuous fuzzing systems like OSS-FUZZ have been successful in finding security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Chaitanya Rahalkar

Fuzzing has become a widely adopted technique for vulnerability discovery, yet it remains ineffective for structured-input programs due to strict syntactic constraints and limited semantic awareness. Traditional greybox fuzzers rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yihao Zou , Tianming Zheng , Futai Zou , Yue Wu

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…

Deep learning powers critical applications such as autonomous driving, healthcare, and finance, where the correctness of underlying libraries is essential. Bugs in widely used deep learning APIs can propagate to downstream systems, causing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Bin Duan , Ruican Dong , Naipeng Dong , Dan Dongseong Kim , Guowei Yang