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Fuzzing is widely used for software vulnerability detection. There are various kinds of fuzzers with different fuzzing strategies, and most of them perform well on their targets. However, in industry practice and empirical study, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Yuanliang Chen , Yu Jiang , Fuchen Ma , Jie Liang , Mingzhe Wang , Chijin Zhou , Zhuo Su , Xun Jiao

With the rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in automated code refactoring, assessing and ensuring functional equivalence between LLM-generated refactoring and the original implementation becomes critical. While prior work…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Simantika Bhattacharjee Dristi , Matthew B. Dwyer

Over 70% of security vulnerabilities in critical software systems today result from memory safety violations. To address this challenge, fuzzing and static analysis are widely used automated methods to discover such vulnerabilities. Fuzzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Keno Hassler , Philipp Görz , Stephan Lipp

A flurry of fuzzing tools (fuzzers) have been proposed in the literature, aiming at detecting software vulnerabilities effectively and efficiently. To date, it is however still challenging to compare fuzzers due to the inconsistency of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yuwei Li , Shouling Ji , Yuan Chen , Sizhuang Liang , Wei-Han Lee , Yueyao Chen , Chenyang Lyu , Chunming Wu , Raheem Beyah , Peng Cheng , Kangjie Lu , Ting Wang

Fuzzing continues to be the most effective method for identifying security vulnerabilities in software. In the context of fuzz testing, the fuzzer supplies varied inputs to fuzz targets, which are designed to comprehensively exercise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chi Thien Tran

This paper proposes a new fuzzy assessing procedure with application in management decision making. The proposed fuzzy approach build the membership functions for system characteristics of a standby repairable system. This method is used to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Shoele Jamali , Mehrdad J. Bani

As the complexity of logic designs increase, new avenues for testing digital hardware becomes necessary. Fuzz Testing (fuzzing) has recently received attention as a potential candidate for input vector generation on hardware designs. Using…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ruochen Dai , Michael Lee , Patrick Hoey , Weimin Fu , Tuba Yavuz , Xiaolong Guo , Shuo Wang , Dean Sullivan , Orlando Arias

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly exhibit over-refusal - erroneously rejecting benign queries due to overly conservative safety measures - a critical functional flaw that undermines their reliability and usability. Current methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Haonan Zhang , Dongxia Wang , Yi Liu , Kexin Chen , Jiashui Wang , Xinlei Ying , Long Liu , Wenhai Wang

Refactoring is a critical process in software development, aiming at improving the internal structure of code while preserving its external behavior. Refactoring engines are integral components of modern Integrated Development Environments…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Haibo Wang , Zhuolin Xu , Huaien Zhang , Nikolaos Tsantalis , Shin Hwei Tan

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

Coverage-guided fuzz testing has received significant attention from the research community, with a strong focus on binary applications, greatly disregarding other targets, such as web applications. The importance of the World Wide Web in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Sebastian Neef , Lorenz Kleissner , Jean-Pierre Seifert

Coverage-guided fuzzers are powerful automated bug-finding tools. They mutate program inputs, observe coverage, and save any input that hits an unexplored path for future mutation. Unfortunately, without knowledge of input formats--for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Harrison Green , Claire Le Goues , Fraser Brown

Security vulnerabilities in Internet-of-Things devices, mobile platforms, and autonomous systems remain critical. Traditional mutation-based fuzzers -- while effectively explore code paths -- primarily perform byte- or bit-level edits…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mengdi Lu , Steven Ding , Furkan Alaca , Philippe Charland

Ensuring the security and reliability of machine learning frameworks is crucial for building trustworthy AI-based systems. Fuzzing, a popular technique in secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC), can be used to develop secure and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ilya Yegorov , Eli Kobrin , Darya Parygina , Alexey Vishnyakov , Andrey Fedotov

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed across diverse domains, yet their vulnerability to jailbreak attacks, where adversarial inputs bypass safety mechanisms to elicit harmful outputs, poses significant security risks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Qingchao Shen , Zibo Xiao , Lili Huang , Enwei Hu , Yongqiang Tian , Junjie Chen

Grammar-based fuzzing is a technique used to find software vulnerabilities by injecting well-formed inputs generated following rules that encode application semantics. Most grammar-based fuzzers for network protocols rely on human experts…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Samuel Jero , Maria Leonor Pacheco , Dan Goldwasser , Cristina Nita-Rotaru

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

Continuous fuzzing is an increasingly popular technique for automated quality and security assurance. Google maintains OSS-Fuzz: a continuous fuzzing service for open source software. We conduct the first empirical study of OSS-Fuzz,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zhen Yu Ding , Claire Le Goues

Fuzzing has become the de facto standard technique for finding software vulnerabilities. However, even state-of-the-art fuzzers are not very efficient at finding hard-to-trigger software bugs. Most popular fuzzers use evolutionary guidance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Dongdong She , Kexin Pei , Dave Epstein , Junfeng Yang , Baishakhi Ray , Suman Jana

Mutation-based fuzzing has become one of the most common vulnerability discovery solutions over the last decade. Fuzzing can be optimized when targeting specific programs, and given that, some studies have employed online optimization…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Yuki Koike , Hiroyuki Katsura , Hiromu Yakura , Yuma Kurogome