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Fuzz testing to find semantic control vulnerabilities is an essential activity to evaluate the robustness of autonomous driving (AD) software. Whilst there is a preponderance of disparate fuzzing tools that target different parts of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Andrew Roberts , Lorenz Teply , Mert D. Pese , Olaf Maennel , Mohammad Hamad , Sebastian Steinhorst

Collaborative fuzzing combines multiple individual fuzzers and dynamically chooses appropriate combinations for different programs. Unlike individual fuzzers that rely on specific assumptions, collaborative fuzzing relaxes assumptions on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Wenxuan Shi , Hongwei Li , Jiahao Yu , Xinqian Sun , Wenbo Guo , Xinyu Xing

Coverage-guided fuzzing's aggressive, high-volume testing has helped reveal tens of thousands of software security flaws. While executing billions of test cases mandates fast code coverage tracing, the nature of binary-only targets leads to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Stefan Nagy , Anh Nguyen-Tuong , Jason D. Hiser , Jack W. Davidson , Matthew Hicks

As deductive verifiers mature, their potential user base is growing from the initial core developers to other users. To convince external users of the suitability of verifiers, these tools must run reliably out of the box, give meaningful…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Wander Nauta , Marcus Gerhold , Marieke Huisman

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

Hardware Fuzzing emerged as one of the crucial techniques for finding security flaws in modern hardware designs by testing a wide range of input scenarios. One of the main challenges is creating high-quality input seeds that maximize…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Raghul Saravanan , Sudipta Paria , Aritra Dasgupta , Swarup Bhunia , Sai Manoj P D

Software's pervasive impact and increasing reliance in the era of digital transformation raise concerns about vulnerabilities, emphasizing the need for software security. Fuzzy testing is a dynamic analysis software testing technique that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Tiago Dias , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

In the evolving landscape of integrated circuit (IC) design, the increasing complexity of modern processors and intellectual property (IP) cores has introduced new challenges in ensuring design correctness and security. The recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Raghul Saravanan , Sudipta Paria , Aritra Dasgupta , Venkat Nitin Patnala , Swarup Bhunia , Sai Manoj P D

Fuzzing has gained in popularity for software vulnerability detection by virtue of the tremendous effort to develop a diverse set of fuzzers. Thanks to various fuzzing techniques, most of the fuzzers have been able to demonstrate great…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Yu-Fu Fu , Jaehyuk Lee , Taesoo Kim

While fuzzing has demonstrated its effectiveness in exposing vulnerabilities within embedded firmware, the discovery of crashing test cases is only the first step in improving the security of these critical systems. The subsequent fault…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Boyu Chang , Binbin Zhao , Qiao Zhang , Peiyu Liu , Yuan Tian , Raheem Beyah , Shouling Ji

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

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

Zero-knowledge (ZK) protocols have recently found numerous practical applications, such as in authentication, online-voting, and blockchain systems. These protocols are powered by highly complex pipelines that process deterministic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Christoph Hochrainer , Anastasia Isychev , Valentin Wüstholz , Maria Christakis

Of coverage-guided fuzzing's three main components: (1) testcase generation, (2) code coverage tracing, and (3) crash triage, code coverage tracing is a dominant source of overhead. Coverage-guided fuzzers trace every testcase's code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Stefan Nagy , Matthew Hicks

Side-channel attacks allow an adversary to uncover secret program data by observing the behavior of a program with respect to a resource, such as execution time, consumed memory or response size. Side-channel vulnerabilities are difficult…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Shirin Nilizadeh , Yannic Noller , Corina S. Pasareanu

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

Deep Learning (DL) frameworks have served as fundamental components in DL systems over the last decade. However, bugs in DL frameworks could lead to catastrophic consequences in critical scenarios. A simple yet effective way to find bugs in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shaoyu Yang , Chunrong Fang , Haifeng Lin , Xiang Chen , Jia Liu , Zhenyu Chen

Fuzzing is a widely used technique for discovering software vulnerabilities, but identifying hot bytes that influence program behavior remains challenging. Traditional taint analysis can track such bytes white-box, but suffers from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Yuchong Xie , Wenhui Zhang , Dongdong She

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

Broken Access Control (BAC) remains one of the most critical and widespread vulnerabilities in web applications, allowing attackers to access unauthorized resources or perform privileged actions. Despite its severity, BAC is underexplored…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 I Putu Arya Dharmaadi , Mohannad Alhanahnah , Van-Thuan Pham , Fadi Mohsen , Fatih Turkmen