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In this paper, we introduce a comprehensive approach to bolstering the security, reliability, and comprehensibility of OpenAirInterface5G (OAI5G), an open-source software framework for the exploration, development, and testing of 5G…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Huan Wu , Brian Fang , Fei Xie

Security vulnerabilities play a vital role in network security system. Fuzzing technology is widely used as a vulnerability discovery technology to reduce damage in advance. However, traditional fuzzing techniques have many challenges, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Yan Wang , Peng Jia , Luping Liu , Jiayong Liu

Fuzzing is an automated software testing technique broadly adopted by the industry. A popular variant is mutation-based fuzzing, which discovers a large number of bugs in practice. While the research community has studied mutation-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Patrick Jauernig , Domagoj Jakobovic , Stjepan Picek , Emmanuel Stapf , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Modern compilers, such as LLVM, are complex pieces of software. Due to their complexity, manual testing is unlikely to suffice, yet formal verification is difficult to scale. End-to-end fuzzing can be used, but it has difficulties in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yuyang Rong , Zhanghan Yu , Zhenkai Weng , Stephen Neuendorffer , Hao Chen

Command-line interface (CLI) fuzzing tests programs by mutating both command-line options and input file contents, thus enabling discovery of vulnerabilities that only manifest under specific option-input combinations. Prior works of CLI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Momoko Shiraishi , Yinzhi Cao , Takahiro Shinagawa

Exponential growth in embedded systems is driving the research imperative to develop fuzzers to automate firmware testing to uncover software bugs and security vulnerabilities. But, employing fuzzing techniques in this context present a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Guy Farrelly , Michael Chesser , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Existing LLM-based compiler fuzzers often produce syntactically or semantically invalid test programs, limiting their effectiveness in exercising compiler optimizations and backend components. We introduce ReFuzzer, a framework for refining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-02 Iti Shree , Karine Even-Mendoza , Tomasz Radzik

Tool-augmented LLM agents increasingly rely on multi-step, multi-tool workflows to complete real tasks. This design expands the attack surface, because data produced by one tool can be persisted and later reused as input to another tool,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jiangrong Wu , Zitong Yao , Yuhong Nan , Zibin Zheng

Fuzzing is a powerful technique for finding bugs in software libraries, but scaling it remains difficult. Automated harness generation commits to fixed API sequences at synthesis time, limiting the behaviors each harness can test.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Harrison Green , Fraser Brown , Claire Le Goues

Fuzz testing is a fundamental technique employed to identify vulnerabilities within software systems. However, the process can be protracted and resource-intensive, especially when confronted with extensive codebases. In this work, I…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Saket Upadhyay

The purpose of continuous fuzzing platforms is to enable fuzzing for software projects via \emph{fuzz harnesses} -- but as the projects continue to evolve, are these harnesses updated in lockstep, or do they run out of date? If these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Philipp Görz , Joschua Schilling , Thorsten Holz , Marcel Böhme

The Operating System (OS) kernel is foundational in modern computing, especially with the proliferation of diverse computing devices. However, its development also comes with vulnerabilities that can lead to severe security breaches. Kernel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jiacheng Xu , He Sun , Shihao Jiang , Qinying Wang , Mingming Zhang , Xiang Li , Kaiwen Shen , Peng Cheng , Jiming Chen , Charles Zhang , Shouling Ji

Compilers constitute the foundational root-of-trust in software supply chains; however, their immense complexity inevitably conceals critical defects. Recent research has attempted to leverage historical bugs to design new mutation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xingbang He , Yuanwei Chen , Hao Wu , Jikang Zhang , Zicheng Wang , Ligeng Chen , Junjie Peng , Haiyang Wei , Yi Qian , Tiantai Zhang , Linzhang Wang , Bing Mao

The current hardware landscape and application scale is driving performance engineers towards writing bespoke optimizations. Verifying such optimizations, and generating minimal failing cases, is important for robustness in the face of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Philipp Schaad , Timo Schneider , Tal Ben-Nun , Alexandru Calotoiu , Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , Torsten Hoefler

In recent years, the programming capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have garnered significant attention. Fuzz testing, a highly effective technique, plays a key role in enhancing software reliability and detecting vulnerabilities.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hanxiang Xu , Wei Ma , Ting Zhou , Yanjie Zhao , Kai Chen , Qiang Hu , Yang Liu , Haoyu Wang

Fuzzing is one of the key techniques for evaluating the robustness of programs against attacks. Fuzzing has to be effective in producing inputs that cover functionality and find vulnerabilities. But it also has to be efficient in producing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Rahul Gopinath , Andreas Zeller

Multi-robot swarms play an essential role in complex missions including battlefield reconnaissance, agricultural pest monitoring, as well as disaster search and rescue. Unfortunately, given the complexity of swarm algorithms, logical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ruoyu Zhou , Zhiwei Zhang , Haocheng Han , Xiaodong Zhang , Zehan Chen , Jun Sun , Yulong Shen , Dehai Xu

Fuzzing has become a popular technique for automatically detecting vulnerabilities and bugs by generating unexpected inputs. In recent years, the fuzzing process has been integrated into continuous integration workflows (i.e., continuous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Tatsuya Shirai , Olivier Nourry , Yutaro Kashiwa , Kenji Fujiwara , Hajimu Iida

Checking software application suitability using automated software tools has become a vital element for most organisations irrespective of whether they produce in-house software or simply customise off-the-shelf software applications for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-05 Rajesh Mathur , Scott Miles , Miao Du

The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized software testing, particularly fuzz testing, by automating the generation of diverse and effective test inputs. This advancement holds great promise for improving…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Linghan Huang , Peizhou Zhao , Huaming Chen