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Greybox protocol fuzzing is a random testing approach for stateful protocol implementations, where the input is protocol messages generated from mutations of seeds, and the search in the input space is driven by the feedback on coverage of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yu Wang , Yang Xiang , Chandra Thapa , Hajime Suzuki

MLFuzz, a work accepted at ACM FSE 2023, revisits the performance of a machine learning-based fuzzer, NEUZZ. We demonstrate that its main conclusion is entirely wrong due to several fatal bugs in the implementation and wrong evaluation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Dongdong She , Kexin Pei , Junfeng Yang , Baishakhi Ray , Suman Jana

Directed fuzzing performs best for targeted program testing via estimating the impact of each input in reaching predefined program points. But due to insufficient analysis of the program structure and lack of flexibility and configurability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Darya Parygina , Timofey Mezhuev , Daniil Kuts

Rapid popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing permits neuroscientists to collect multilevel and multichannel brain data to better understand brain functions, diagnose diseases, and devise treatments. To ensure secure and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Mufti Mahmud , M. Shamim Kaiser , M. Mostafizur Rahman , M. Arifur Rahman , Antesar Shabut , Shamim Al-Mamun , Amir Hussain

Due to their widespread use in industry, several techniques have been proposed in the literature to fuzz REST APIs. Existing fuzzers for REST APIs have been focusing on detecting crashes (e.g., 500 HTTP server error status code). However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Omur Sahin , Man Zhang , Andrea Arcuri

The rise of smart devices in critical domains--including automotive, medical, industrial--demands robust firmware testing. Fuzzing firmware in re-hosted environments is a promising method for automated testing at scale, but remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Guy Farrelly , Michael Chesser , Seyit Camtepe , Damith C. Ranasinghe

GraphQL's flexible query model and nested data dependencies expose APIs to complex, context-dependent vulnerabilities that are difficult to uncover using conventional testing tools. Existing fuzzers either rely on random payload generation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shaolun Liu , Sina Marefat , Omar Tsai , Yu Chen , Zecheng Deng , Jia Wang , Mohammad A. Tayebi

Fuzzing is widely used for detecting bugs and vulnerabilities, with various techniques proposed to enhance its effectiveness. To combine the advantages of multiple technologies, researchers proposed ensemble fuzzing, which integrates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yukai Zhao , Shaohua Wang , Jue Wang , Xing Hu , Xin Xia

Recent research has sought to improve fuzzing performance via parallel computing. However, researchers focus on improving efficiency while ignoring the increasing cost of testing resources. Parallel fuzzing in the distributed environment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Xu Zhou , Pengfei Wang , Chenyifan Liu , Tai Yue , Yingying Liu , Congxi Song , Kai Lu , Qidi Yin , Xu Han

Deep learning-based code processing models have shown good performance for tasks such as predicting method names, summarizing programs, and comment generation. However, despite the tremendous progress, deep learning models are often prone…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Moshi Wei , Yuchao Huang , Jinqiu Yang , Junjie Wang , Song Wang

Cloud computing is one of the highly flexible, confidential and easily accessible medium of platforms and provides powerful service for sharing information over the Internet. Cloud security has become an emerging issue as network manager…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Ziaur Rahman , Asma Islam Swapna , Habibur Rahman Habib , Akramuzzaman Shaoun

Smart contract (SC) fuzzing is a critical technique for detecting vulnerabilities in blockchain applications. However, its adoption remains challenging for practitioners due to fundamental differences between SCs and traditional software…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Guanming Qiao , Partha Protim Paul

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, or fuzzing, has become one of the de facto standard techniques for bug finding in the software industry. In general, fuzzing provides various inputs to the target program to discover unhandled exceptions and crashes. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Yifan Wang , Yuchen Zhang , Chengbin Pang , Peng Li , Nikolaos Triandopoulos , Jun Xu

Fuzzing is a popular dynamic program analysis technique used to find vulnerabilities in complex software. Fuzzing involves presenting a target program with crafted malicious input designed to cause crashes, buffer overflows, memory errors,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Mohit Rajpal , William Blum , Rishabh Singh

Python's native serialization protocol, pickle, is a powerful but insecure format for transferring untrusted data. It is frequently used, especially for saving machine learning models, despite known security challenges. While developers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Justin Applegate , Andreas Kellas

Fuzzing -- whether generating or mutating inputs -- has found many bugs and security vulnerabilities in a wide range of domains. Stateful and highly structured web APIs present significant challenges to traditional fuzzing techniques, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Zac Hatfield-Dodds , Dmitry Dygalo

In the modern era where software plays a pivotal role, software security and vulnerability analysis are essential for secure software development. Fuzzing test, as an efficient and traditional software testing method, has been widely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Linghan Huang , Peizhou Zhao , Huaming Chen , Lei Ma

The proliferation of blockchains has given developers a variety of platforms on which to run their smart contracts based on application features and requirements for throughput, security, and cost. However, a consequence of this freedom is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Ryan Zarick , Bryan Pellegrino , Caleb Banister

Quantifying vulnerabilities of network systems has been a highly controversial issue in the fields of network security and IoT. Much research has been conducted on this purpose; however, these have many ambiguities and uncertainties. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Mohammad Shojaeshafiei , Letha Etzkorn , Michael Anderson