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SpecFuzz is the first tool that enables dynamic testing for speculative execution vulnerabilities (e.g., Spectre). The key is a novel concept of speculation exposure: The program is instrumented to simulate speculative execution in software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Oleksii Oleksenko , Bohdan Trach , Mark Silberstein , Christof Fetzer

The effectiveness and efficiency of 5G software stack vulnerability and unintended behavior detection are essential for 5G assurance, especially for its applications in critical infrastructures. Scalability and automation are the main…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Zhuzhu Wang , Ying Wang

This paper presents VulnSense framework, a comprehensive approach to efficiently detect vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts using a multimodal learning approach on graph-based and natural language processing (NLP) models. Our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Phan The Duy , Nghi Hoang Khoa , Nguyen Huu Quyen , Le Cong Trinh , Vu Trung Kien , Trinh Minh Hoang , Van-Hau Pham

Fuzzing is a well-established technique in the software domain to uncover bugs and vulnerabilities. Yet, applications of fuzzing for security vulnerabilities in hardware systems are scarce, as principal reasons are requirements for design…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Maik Ender , Felix Hahn , Marc Fyrbiak , Amir Moradi , Christof Paar

With the expansion of the software scale and complexity of smart grid systems, the detection of smart grid software defects has become a research hotspot. Because of the large scale of the existing smart grid software code, the efficiency…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Ling Yuan , Siyuan Zhou , Neal Xiong

Reentrancy is one of the most notorious vulnerabilities in smart contracts, resulting in significant digital asset losses. However, many previous works indicate that current Reentrancy detection tools suffer from high false positive rates.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Zexu Wang , Jiachi Chen , Zibin Zheng , Peilin Zheng , Yu Zhang , Weizhe Zhang

Smart contracts play a significant role in automating blockchain services. Nevertheless, vulnerabilities in smart contracts pose serious threats to blockchain security. Currently, traditional detection methods primarily rely on static…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Tenghui Huang , Jinbo Wen , Jiawen Kang , Siyong Chen , Zhengtao Li , Tao Zhang , Dongning Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Chengjun Cai , Yinqiu Liu , Dusit Niyato

Traditional database fuzzing techniques primarily focus on syntactic correctness and general SQL structures, leaving critical yet obscure DBMS features, such as system-level modes (e.g., GTID), programmatic constructs (e.g., PROCEDURE),…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yongxin Chen , Zhiyuan Jiang , Chao Zhang , Haoran Xu , Shenglin Xu , Jianping Tang , Zheming Li , Peidai Xie , Yongjun Wang

Fuzzing has emerged as a powerful technique for finding security bugs in complicated real-world applications. American fuzzy lop (AFL), a leading fuzzing tool, has demonstrated its powerful bug finding ability through a vast number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Tai D. Nguyen , Long H. Pham , Jun Sun

Contemporary large language model (LLM) agents are remarkably capable, but they still lack reliable safety controls and can produce unconstrained, unpredictable, and even actively harmful outputs. To address this, we introduce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Bin Wang , Jiazheng Quan , Xingrui Yu , Hansen Hu , Yuhao , Ivor Tsang

In the testing-retraining pipeline for enhancing the robustness property of deep learning (DL) models, many state-of-the-art robustness-oriented fuzzing techniques are metric-oriented. The pipeline generates adversarial examples as test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Haipeng Wang , Zhengyuan Wei , Qilin Zhou , Wing-Kwong Chan

Grey-box fuzzers such as American Fuzzy Lop (AFL) are popular tools for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities in programs. While these fuzzers have been able to find vulnerabilities in many widely used programs, they are not efficient;…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Siddharth Karamcheti , Gideon Mann , David Rosenberg

Fuzzy logic controllers are readily customizable in natural language terms and can effectively deal with nonlinearities and uncertainties in control systems. This paper presents an intelligent and automated fuzzy control procedure for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-07 Issam Damaj , Jean Saade , Hala Al-Faisal , Hassan Diab

Guided fuzzing has, in recent years, been able to uncover many new vulnerabilities in real-world software due to its fast input mutation strategies guided by path-coverage. However, most fuzzers are unable to achieve high coverage in deeper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Saahil Ognawala , Fabian Kilger , Alexander Pretschner

Programmable Logic Controllers are used for smart homes, in production processes or to control critical infrastructures. Modern industrial devices in the control level are often communicating over proprietary protocols on top of TCP/IP with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Matthias Niedermaier , Florian Fischer , Alexander von Bodisco

Cryptographic protocols form the backbone of modern security systems, yet vulnerabilities persist within their implementations. Traditional testing techniques, including fuzzing, have struggled to effectively identify vulnerabilities in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-20 S Mahmudul Hasan , Polina Kozyreva , Endadul Hoque

Fuzzing is an important method to discover vulnerabilities in programs. Despite considerable progress in this area in the past years, measuring and comparing the effectiveness of fuzzers is still an open research question. In software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Philipp Görz , Björn Mathis , Keno Hassler , Emre Güler , Thorsten Holz , Andreas Zeller , Rahul Gopinath

Robustness is a key concern for Rust library development because Rust promises no risks of undefined behaviors if developers use safe APIs only. Fuzzing is a practical approach for examining the robustness of programs. However, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Jianfeng Jiang , Hui Xu , Yangfan Zhou

Hybrid testing approaches that involve fuzz testing and symbolic execution have shown promising results in achieving high code coverage, uncovering subtle errors and vulnerabilities in a variety of software applications. In this paper we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Yannic Noller , Rody Kersten , Corina S. Păsăreanu

The rapid growth of Ethereum has made it more important to quickly and accurately detect smart contract vulnerabilities. While machine-learning-based methods have shown some promise, many still rely on rule-based preprocessing designed by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Uisang Lee , Changhoon Chung , Junmo Lee , Soo-Mook Moon