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Fuzzing is an important dynamic program analysis technique designed for finding vulnerabilities in complex software. Fuzzing involves presenting a target program with crafted malicious input to cause crashes, buffer overflows, memory…

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

Fuzzing is a popular bug detection technique achieved by testing software executables with random inputs. This technique can also be extended to libraries by constructing executables that call library APIs, known as fuzz drivers. Automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Yehong Zhang , Jun Wu , Hui Xu

The exploit or the Proof of Concept of the vulnerability plays an important role in developing superior vulnerability repair techniques, as it can be used as an oracle to verify the correctness of the patches generated by the tools.…

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

Ensuring the correctness of compiler optimizations is critical, but existing fuzzers struggle to test optimizations effectively. First, most fuzzers use optimization pipelines (heuristics-based, fixed sequences of passes) as their harness.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Zitong Zhou , Ben Limpanukorn , Hong Jin Kang , Jiyuan Wang , Yaoxuan Wu , Akos Kiss , Renata Hodovan , Miryung Kim

Fuzzing has proven to be very effective for discovering certain classes of software flaws, but less effective in helping developers process these discoveries. Conventional crash-based fuzzers lack enough information about failures to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Allison Naaktgeboren , Sean Noble Anderson , Andrew Tolmach , Greg Sullivan

Fuzzing is a technique widely used in vulnerability detection. The process usually involves writing effective fuzz driver programs, which, when done manually, can be extremely labor intensive. Previous attempts at automation leave much to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Mingrui Zhang , Jianzhong Liu , Fuchen Ma , Huafeng Zhang , Yu Jiang

Security vulnerabilities play a vital role in network security system. Fuzzing technology is widely used as a vulnerability discovery technology to reduce damage in advance. However, traditional fuzzing techniques have many challenges, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Yan Wang , Peng Jia , Luping Liu , Jiayong Liu

Fuzzing consists of repeatedly testing an application with modified, or fuzzed, inputs with the goal of finding security vulnerabilities in input-parsing code. In this paper, we show how to automate the generation of an input grammar…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Patrice Godefroid , Hila Peleg , Rishabh Singh

Fuzzing has become a popular technique for automatically detecting vulnerabilities and bugs by generating unexpected inputs. In recent years, the fuzzing process has been integrated into continuous integration workflows (i.e., continuous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Tatsuya Shirai , Olivier Nourry , Yutaro Kashiwa , Kenji Fujiwara , Hajimu Iida

Automatic test generation typically aims to generate inputs that explore new paths in the program under test in order to find bugs. Existing work has, therefore, focused on guiding the exploration toward program parts that are more likely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Valentin Wüstholz , Maria Christakis

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

Software fuzzing is a strong testing technique that has become the de facto approach for automated software testing and software vulnerability detection in the industry. The random nature of fuzzing makes monitoring and understanding the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Aftab Hussain , Mohammad Amin Alipour

The importance of addressing security vulnerabilities is indisputable, with software becoming crucial in sectors such as national defense and finance. Consequently, The security issues caused by software vulnerabilities cannot be ignored.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Liqun Yang , Chunan Li , Yongxin Qiu , Chaoren Wei , Jian Yang , Hongcheng Guo , Jinxin Ma , Zhoujun Li

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

Fuzzing is a widely used technique for detecting software bugs and vulnerabilities. Most popular fuzzers generate new inputs using an evolutionary search to maximize code coverage. Essentially, these fuzzers start with a set of seed inputs,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Dongdong She , Rahul Krishna , Lu Yan , Suman Jana , Baishakhi Ray

A common paradigm for improving fuzzing performance is to focus on selected regions of a program rather than its entirety. While previous work has largely explored how these locations can be reached, their selection, that is, the where, has…

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 is an automated application vulnerability detection method. For genetic algorithm-based fuzzing, it can mutate the seed files provided by users to obtain a number of inputs, which are then used to test the objective application in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Chenyang Lyu , Shouling Ji , Yuwei Li , Junfeng Zhou , Jianhai Chen , Jing Chen