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Concolic execution and fuzzing are two complementary coverage-based testing techniques. How to achieve the best of both remains an open challenge. To address this research problem, we propose and evaluate Legion. Legion re-engineers the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Dongge Liu , Gidon Ernst , Toby Murray , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

We present DiffMin, a technique that refines a fuzzed crashing input to gain greater similarities to given passing inputs to help developers analyze the crashing input to identify the failure-inducing condition and locate buggy code for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Kieun Kim , Seongmin Lee , Shin Hong

Context: Exhaustive fuzzing of modern JavaScript engines is infeasible due to the vast number of program states and execution paths. Coverage-guided fuzzers waste effort on low-risk inputs, often ignoring vulnerability-triggering ones that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kishan Kumar Ganguly , Tim Menzies

Computer programming initially required humans to directly translate their goals into machine code. These goals could have easily been expressed as a written (or human) language directive. Computers, however, had no capacity to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Justin Del Vecchio , Andrew Perreault , Eliana Furmanek

Greybox fuzzing is the de-facto standard to discover bugs during development. Fuzzers execute many inputs to maximize the amount of reached code. Recently, Directed Greybox Fuzzers (DGFs) propose an alternative strategy that goes beyond…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Han Zheng , Jiayuan Zhang , Yuhang Huang , Zezhong Ren , He Wang , Chunjie Cao , Yuqing Zhang , Flavio Toffalini , Mathias Payer

Fuzz Testing is a largely automated testing technique that provides random and unexpected input to a program in attempt to trigger failure conditions. Much of the research conducted thus far into Fuzz Testing has focused on developing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Matthew Kelly , Christoph Treude , Alex Murray

A fuzzer provides randomly generated inputs to a targeted software to expose erroneous behavior. To efficiently detect defects, generated inputs should conform to the structure of the input format and thus, grammars can be used to generate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Martin Eberlein , Yannic Noller , Thomas Vogel , Lars Grunske

Recent years have witnessed a wide array of results in software testing, exploring different approaches and methodologies ranging from fuzzers to symbolic engines, with a full spectrum of instances in between such as concolic execution and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Luca Borzacchiello , Emilio Coppa , Camil Demetrescu

Despite the existence of numerous colorization methods, several limitations still exist, such as lack of user interaction, inflexibility in local colorization, unnatural color rendering, insufficient color variation, and color overflow. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Zhexin Liang , Zhaochen Li , Shangchen Zhou , Chongyi Li , Chen Change Loy

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models have revolutionized content creation by transforming textual descriptions into high-quality images. However, these models are vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks, where carefully crafted prompts bypass…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yingkai Dong , Xiangtao Meng , Ning Yu , Zheng Li , Shanqing Guo

Recent research has shown that hardware fuzzers can effectively detect security vulnerabilities in modern processors. However, existing hardware fuzzers do not fuzz well the hard-to-reach design spaces. Consequently, these fuzzers cannot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Chen Chen , Rahul Kande , Nathan Nguyen , Flemming Andersen , Aakash Tyagi , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Jeyavijayan Rajendran

Double-fetch bugs are a special type of race condition, where an unprivileged execution thread is able to change a memory location between the time-of-check and time-of-use of a privileged execution thread. If an unprivileged attacker…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Michael Schwarz , Daniel Gruss , Moritz Lipp , Clémentine Maurice , Thomas Schuster , Anders Fogh , Stefan Mangard

The comic production industry requires reference-based line art colorization with high accuracy, efficiency, contextual consistency, and flexible control. A comic page often involves diverse characters, objects, and backgrounds, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Junhao Zhuang , Lingen Li , Xuan Ju , Zhaoyang Zhang , Chun Yuan , Ying Shan

Fuzz testing has become a cornerstone technique for identifying software bugs and security vulnerabilities, with broad adoption in both industry and open-source communities. Directly fuzzing a function requires fuzz drivers, which translate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Paschal C. Amusuo , Dongge Liu , Ricardo Andres Calvo Mendez , Jonathan Metzman , Oliver Chang , James C. Davis

Bugs exist in hardware, such as CPU. Unlike software bugs, these hardware bugs need to be detected before deployment. Previous fuzzing work in CPU bug detection has several disadvantages, e.g., the length of RTL input instructions keeps…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Gen Zhang , Pengfei Wang , Tai Yue , Danjun Liu , Yubei Guo , Kai Lu

The rapidly developing deep learning (DL) techniques have been applied in software systems with various application scenarios. However, they could also pose new safety threats with potentially serious consequences, especially in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Pin Ji , Yang Feng , Duo Wu , Lingyue Yan , Pengling Chen , Jia Liu , Zhihong Zhao

Image forensics aims to detect the manipulation of digital images. Currently, splicing detection, copy-move detection and image retouching detection are drawing much attentions from researchers. However, image editing techniques develop…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Yuanfang Guo , Xiaochun Cao , Wei Zhang , Rui Wang

Large language models are highly sensitive to prompt wording. However, popular automatic prompt search methods, including InstructZero, often degrade under distribution shift and adversarial evaluation because they optimize expected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Yangyang Li

Predicting program behavior and reasoning about code execution remain significant challenges in software engineering, particularly for large language models (LLMs) designed for code analysis. While these models excel at understanding static…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Cuong Chi Le , Hoang-Chau Truong-Vinh , Huy Nhat Phan , Dung Duy Le , Tien N. Nguyen , Nghi D. Q. Bui

Symbolic execution is a successful and very popular technique used in software verification and testing. A key limitation of symbolic execution is in dealing with code containing loops. The problem is that even a single loop can generate a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-07-08 Jan Obdrzalek , Marek Trtik