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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

Modern software often accepts inputs with highly complex grammars. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown that they can be used to synthesize high-quality natural language text and code that conforms to the grammar of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Kunpeng Zhang , Zongjie Li , Daoyuan Wu , Shuai Wang , Xin Xia

Fuzzing is a technique widely used in vulnerability detection. The process usually involves writing effective fuzz driver programs, which, when done manually, can be extremely labor intensive. Previous attempts at automation leave much to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Mingrui Zhang , Jianzhong Liu , Fuchen Ma , Huafeng Zhang , Yu Jiang

BusyBox, an open-source software bundling over 300 essential Linux commands into a single executable, is ubiquitous in Linux-based embedded devices. Vulnerabilities in BusyBox can have far-reaching consequences, affecting a wide array of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Asmita , Yaroslav Oliinyk , Michael Scott , Ryan Tsang , Chongzhou Fang , Houman Homayoun

The Cloud infrastructure offers to end users a broad set of heterogenous computational resources using the pay-as-you-go model. These virtualized resources can be provisioned using different pricing models like the unreliable model where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Panagiotis Oikonomou , Kostas Kolomvatsos , Nikos Tziritas , Georgios Theodoropoulos , Thanasis Loukopoulos , Georgios Stamoulis

Graph algorithms, such as shortest path finding, play a crucial role in enabling essential applications and services like infrastructure planning and navigation, making their correctness important. However, thoroughly testing graph…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Wenqi Yan , Manuel Rigger , Anthony Wirth , Van-Thuan Pham

This paper introduces \textsc{FuzzyLogic.jl}, a Julia library to perform fuzzy inference. The library is fully open-source and released under a permissive license. The core design principles of the library are: user-friendliness,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Luca Ferranti , Jani Boutellier

Developers utilize third-party libraries to improve productivity, which also introduces potential security risks. Existing approaches generate tests for public functions to trigger library vulnerabilities from client programs, yet they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yukai Zhao , Menghan Wu , Xing Hu , Shaohua Wang , Meng Luo , Xin Xia

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

Fuzzing has proven to be a fundamental technique to automated software testing but also a costly one. With the increased adoption of CI/CD practices in software development, a natural question to ask is `What are the best ways to integrate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Thijs Klooster , Fatih Turkmen , Gerben Broenink , Ruben ten Hove , Marcel Böhme

Testing a program's capability to effectively handling errors is a significant challenge, given that program errors are relatively uncommon. To solve this, Software Fault Injection (SFI)-based fuzzing integrates SFI and traditional fuzzing,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jin Wei , Ping Chen , Jun Dai , Xiaoyan Sun , Zhihao Zhang , Chang Xu , Yi Wanga

Modern hardware systems, driven by demands for high performance and application-specific functionality, have grown increasingly complex, introducing large surfaces for bugs and security-critical vulnerabilities. Fuzzing has emerged as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Lichao Wu , Mohamadreza Rostami , Huimin Li , Nikhilesh Singh , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

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

The widespread application of large language models (LLMs) underscores the importance of deep learning (DL) technologies that rely on foundational DL libraries such as PyTorch and TensorFlow. Despite their robust features, these libraries…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Zhiyuan Li , Jingzheng Wu , Xiang Ling , Tianyue Luo , Zhiqing Rui , Yanjun Wu

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

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 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

Existing work only effective on a given number of GPUs, often neglecting the complexities involved in manually determining the specific types and quantities of GPUs needed, which can be a significant burden for developers. To address this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Zihan Chang , Sheng Xiao , Shuibing He , Siling Yang , Zhe Pan , Dong Li

As autonomous driving systems (ADS) advance towards higher levels of autonomy, orchestrating their safety verification becomes increasingly intricate. This paper unveils ScenarioFuzz, a pioneering scenario-based fuzz testing methodology.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Tong Wang , Taotao Gu , Huan Deng , Hu Li , Xiaohui Kuang , Gang Zhao

Patch fuzzing is a technique aimed at identifying vulnerabilities that arise from newly patched code. While researchers have made efforts to apply patch fuzzing to testing JavaScript engines with considerable success, these efforts have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Junjie Wang , Yuhan Ma , Xiaofei Xie , Xiaoning Du , Xiangwei Zhang