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Dynamic symbolic execution (DSE) is a powerful method for path exploration during hybrid fuzzing and automatic bug detection. We propose security predicates to effectively detect undefined behavior and memory access violation errors.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Alexey Vishnyakov , Vlada Logunova , Eli Kobrin , Daniil Kuts , Darya Parygina , Andrey Fedotov

Binary verification plays a pivotal role in software security, yet building a verification service that is both open and trustworthy poses a formidable challenge. In this paper, we introduce a novel binary verification service, AGORA,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hongbo Chen , Quan Zhou , Sen Yang , Xing Han , Fan Zhang , Danfeng Zhang , Xiaofeng Wang

Deep Graph Learning (DGL) has emerged as a crucial technique across various domains. However, recent studies have exposed vulnerabilities in DGL models, such as susceptibility to evasion and poisoning attacks. While empirical and provable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yuni Lai , Yulin Zhu , Bailin Pan , Kai Zhou

Many important hyperproperties, such as refinement and generalized non-interference, fall into the class of $\forall\exists$ hyperproperties and require, for each execution trace of a system, the existence of another trace relating to the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Arthur Correnson , Tobias Niessen , Bernd Finkbeiner , Georg Weissenbacher

Windows Component Object Model (COM) services run with elevated privileges and are widely accessible to authenticated users, making race conditions in these binaries a critical surface for local privilege escalation. We present SLYP, an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Hwiwon Lee , Jongseong Kim , Lingming Zhang

Graph neural networks are becoming increasingly popular in the field of machine learning due to their unique ability to process data structured in graphs. They have also been applied in safety-critical environments where perturbations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Tobias Ladner , Michael Eichelbeck , Matthias Althoff

In the era of rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), neural network models have achieved notable breakthroughs. However, concerns arise regarding their vulnerability to adversarial attacks. This study focuses on enhancing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Fang Yu , Ya-Yu Chi , Yu-Fang Chen

The Go programming language aims to provide memory and thread safety through measures such as automated memory management with garbage collection and a strict type system. However, it also offers a way of circumventing this safety net…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Johannes Lauinger , Lars Baumgärtner , Anna-Katharina Wickert , Mira Mezini

Symbolic execution now becomes an indispensable technique for software testing and program analysis. There are several symbolic execution tools available off-the-shelf, and we need a practical benchmark approach to learn their capabilities.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Hui Xu , Zirui Zhao , Yangfan Zhou , Michael R. Lyu

An effective way to maximize code coverage in software tests is through dynamic symbolic execution$-$a technique that uses constraint solving to systematically explore a program's state space. We introduce an open-source dynamic symbolic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Mark Mossberg , Felipe Manzano , Eric Hennenfent , Alex Groce , Gustavo Grieco , Josselin Feist , Trent Brunson , Artem Dinaburg

Symbolic execution is a program analysis technique executing programs with symbolic instead of concrete inputs. This principle allows for exploring many program paths at once. Despite its wide adoption -- in particular for program testing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Arthur Correnson , Dominic Steinhoefel

Testing is widely recognized as an important stage of the software development lifecycle. Effective software testing can provide benefits such as bug finding, preventing regressions, and documentation. In terms of documentation, unit tests…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Elizabeth Dinella , Gabriel Ryan , Todd Mytkowicz , Shuvendu K. Lahiri

With the pervasive integration of computer applications across industries, the presence of vulnerabilities within code bases poses significant risks. The diversity of software ecosystems coupled with the intricate nature of modern software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Bowen Tian , Zhengyang Xu , Mingqiang Wu , Songning Lai , Yutai Yue

Binary-only fuzzing often struggles with achieving thorough code coverage and uncovering hidden vulnerabilities due to limited insight into a program's internal dataflows. Traditional grey-box fuzzers guide test case generation primarily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Kai Feng , Jeremy Singer , Angelos K Marnerides

Querying incomplete knowledge graphs with neural predictors is powerful but dangerous. Errors compound across multi-hop pipelines with no formal bound on the completeness of results. We introduce ConRAD, the first framework to enforce…

Graphical user interface (GUI) agents powered by vision language models (VLMs) are rapidly moving from passive assistance to autonomous operation. However, this unrestricted action space exposes users to severe and irreversible financial,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yushi Feng , Junye Du , Qifan Wang , Zizhan Ma , Qian Niu , Yutaka Matsuo , Long Feng , Lequan Yu

As machine learning gains prominence in various sectors of society for automated decision-making, concerns have risen regarding potential vulnerabilities in machine learning (ML) frameworks. Nevertheless, testing these frameworks is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Zhao Liu , Quanchen Zou , Tian Yu , Xuan Wang , Guozhu Meng , Kai Chen , Deyue Zhang

Concolic testing is a promising method for generating test suites for large programs. However, it suffers from the path-explosion problem and often fails to find tests that cover difficult-to-reach parts of programs. In contrast, model…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Przemysław Daca , Ashutosh Gupta , Thomas A. Henzinger

This paper tackles the problem of designing efficient binary-level verification for a subset of information flow properties encompassing constant-time and secret-erasure. These properties are crucial for cryptographic implementations, but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Lesly-Ann Daniel , Sébastien Bardin , Tamara Rezk

KYA (Know Your Agents) is an open-source, framework-agnostic trust and governance layer for autonomous systems, composed of five primitives: (1) a four-gate inbound apply pipeline; (2) an only-tighten composition algebra over a…

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