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Fuzzing is one of the most effective technique to identify potential software vulnerabilities. Most of the fuzzers aim to improve the code coverage, and there is lack of directedness (e.g., fuzz the specified path in a software). In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Xiaogang Zhu , Shigang Liu , Xian Li , Sheng Wen , Jun Zhang , Camtepe Seyit , Yang Xiang

A fundamental problem in cybersecurity and computer science is determining whether a program is free of bugs and vulnerabilities. Fuzzing, a popular approach to discovering vulnerabilities in programs, has several advantages over…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ian Hardgrove , John D. Hastings

In this paper we show E-FuzzEdge, a novel fuzzing architecture targeted towards improving the throughput of fuzzing campaigns in contexts where scalability is unavailable. E-FuzzEdge addresses the inefficiencies of hardware-in-the-loop…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Davide Rusconi , Osama Yousef , Mirco Picca , Flavio Toffalini , Andrea Lanzi

Telecommunications networks rely on configurations to define routing behavior, especially in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), where misconfigurations can lead to severe outages and security breaches, as demonstrated by the 2021 Facebook…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Chenlu Zhang , Amirmohammad Pasdar , Van-Thuan Pham

Database Management System (DBMS) fuzzing is an automated testing technique aimed at detecting errors and vulnerabilities in DBMSs by generating, mutating, and executing test cases. It not only reduces the time and cost of manual testing…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Xiyue Gao , Zhuang Liu , Jiangtao Cui , Hui Li , Hui Zhang , Kewei Wei , Kankan Zhao

Generative Models (GMs), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have garnered significant attention in machine learning and artificial intelligence for their ability to generate new data by learning the statistical properties of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Hailong Yang , Zhaohong Deng , Wei Zhang , Zhuangzhuang Zhao , Guanjin Wang , Kup-sze Choi

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

Testing with randomly generated inputs (fuzzing) has gained significant traction due to its capacity to expose program vulnerabilities automatically. Fuzz testing campaigns generate large amounts of data, making them ideal for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Maria-Irina Nicolae , Max Eisele , Andreas Zeller

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

Fuzzing a library requires experts to understand the library usage well and craft high-quality fuzz drivers, which is tricky and tedious. Therefore, many techniques have been proposed to automatically generate fuzz drivers. However, they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yan Li , Wenzhang Yang , Yuekun Wang , Jian Gao , Shaohua Wang , Yinxing Xue , Lijun Zhang

Firmware fuzzing has gained attention for identifying firmware bugs. However, current approaches often directly integrate fuzzing tools for general software. General software receives input as it encounters I/O functions, but firmware input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shandian Shen , Wei Zhou , Keming Zhao , Peng Liu , Chung Hwan Kim , Le Guan

With the rapid growth of IoT, secure and efficient mesh networking has become essential. Thread has emerged as a key protocol, widely used in smart-home and commercial systems, and serving as a core transport layer in the Matter standard.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Ilja Siroš , Jakob Heirwegh , Dave Singelée , Bart Preneel

CPUs are becoming more complex with every generation, at both the logical and the physical levels. This potentially leads to more logic bugs and electrical defects in CPUs being overlooked during testing, which causes data corruption or…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Kostya Serebryany , Maxim Lifantsev , Konstantin Shtoyk , Doug Kwan , Peter Hochschild

Deep learning (DL) libraries, widely used in AI applications, often contain vulnerabilities like buffer overflows and use-after-free errors. Traditional fuzzing struggles with the complexity and API diversity of DL libraries such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Kunpeng Zhang , Shuai Wang , Jitao Han , Xiaogang Zhu , Xian Li , Shaohua Wang , Sheng Wen

Context: Exhaustive fuzzing of modern JavaScript engines is infeasible due to the vast number of program states and execution paths. Coverage-guided fuzzers waste effort on low-risk inputs, often ignoring vulnerability-triggering ones that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kishan Kumar Ganguly , Tim Menzies

Fuzz testing to find semantic control vulnerabilities is an essential activity to evaluate the robustness of autonomous driving (AD) software. Whilst there is a preponderance of disparate fuzzing tools that target different parts of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Andrew Roberts , Lorenz Teply , Mert D. Pese , Olaf Maennel , Mohammad Hamad , Sebastian Steinhorst

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 widespread application of large language models (LLMs) underscores the importance of deep learning (DL) technologies that rely on foundational DL libraries such as PyTorch and TensorFlow. Despite their robust features, these libraries…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Zhiyuan Li , Jingzheng Wu , Xiang Ling , Tianyue Luo , Zhiqing Rui , Yanjun Wu

Finding software vulnerabilities in concurrent programs is a challenging task due to the size of the state-space exploration, as the number of interleavings grows exponentially with the number of program threads and statements. We propose…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Fatimah K. Aljaafari , Rafael Menezes , Edoardo Manino , Fedor Shmarov , Mustafa A. Mustafa , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Grey box fuzzing is one of the most successful methods for automatic vulnerability detection. However,conventional Grey box Fuzzers like AFL can open perform fuzzing against the whole input and spend more time on smaller seeds with lower…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Linlin Zhang , Ning Luo
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