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A code-level backdoor is a hidden access, programmed and concealed within the code of a program. For instance, hard-coded credentials planted in the code of a file server application would enable maliciously logging into all deployed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Dimitri Kokkonis , Michaël Marcozzi , Emilien Decoux , Stefano Zacchiroli

Fuzz Testing techniques are the state of the art in software testing for security issues nowadays. Their great effectiveness attracted the attention of researchers and hackers and involved them in developing a lot of new techniques to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Andrea Fioraldi , Luigi Paolo Pileggi

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

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

Software's pervasive impact and increasing reliance in the era of digital transformation raise concerns about vulnerabilities, emphasizing the need for software security. Fuzzy testing is a dynamic analysis software testing technique that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Tiago Dias , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

Modern computing systems heavily rely on hardware as the root of trust. However, their increasing complexity has given rise to security-critical vulnerabilities that cross-layer at-tacks can exploit. Traditional hardware vulnerability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Mohamadreza Rostami , Marco Chilese , Shaza Zeitouni , Rahul Kande , Jeyavijayan Rajendran , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Software model checking is a verification technique which is widely used for checking temporal properties of software systems. Even though it is a property verification technique, its common usage in practice is in "bug finding", that is,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Ruijie Meng , Zhen Dong , Jialin Li , Ivan Beschastnikh , Abhik Roychoudhury

Direct kernel fuzzing is a targeted approach that focuses on specific areas of the kernel, effectively addressing the challenges of frequent updates and the inherent complexity of operating systems, which are critical infrastructure. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xie Li , Zhaoyue Yuan , Zhenduo Zhang , Youcheng Sun , Lijun Zhang

Correctness and robustness are essential for logic synthesis applications, but they are often only tested with a limited set of benchmarks. Moreover, when the application fails on a large benchmark, the debugging process may be tedious and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Siang-Yun Lee , Heinz Riener , Giovanni De Micheli

Fuzzing has become a key search-based technique for software testing, but continuous fuzzing campaigns consume substantial computational resources and generate significant carbon footprints. Existing grey-box fuzzing approaches like AFL++…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ayse Irmak Ercevik , Aidan Dakhama , Melane Navaratnarajah , Yazhuo Cao , Leo Fernandes

gVisor is a Google-published application-level kernel for containers. As gVisor is lightweight and has sound isolation, it has been widely used in many IT enterprises \cite{Stripe, DigitalOcean, Cloundflare}. When a new vulnerability of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Yuwei Li , Yuan Chen , Shouling Ji , Xuhong Zhang , Guanglu Yan , Alex X. Liu , Chunming Wu , Zulie Pan , Peng Lin

Appropriate test data is a crucial factor to reach success in dynamic software testing, e.g., fuzzing. Most of the real-world applications, however, accept complex structure inputs containing data surrounded by meta-data which is processed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Morteza Zakeri Nasrabadi , Saeed Parsa , Akram Kalaee

Nowadays automated dynamic analysis frameworks for continuous testing are in high demand to ensure software safety and satisfy the security development lifecycle (SDL) requirements. The security bug hunting efficiency of cutting-edge hybrid…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Alexey Vishnyakov , Daniil Kuts , Vlada Logunova , Darya Parygina , Eli Kobrin , Georgy Savidov , Andrey Fedotov

Greybox fuzzing has achieved success in revealing bugs and vulnerabilities in programs. However, randomized mutation strategies have limited the fuzzer's performance on structured data. Specialized fuzzers can handle complex structured…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hongxiang Zhang , Yuyang Rong , Yifeng He , Hao Chen

Fuzzing is an effective technique for discovering software vulnerabilities by generating random test inputs and executing them against the target program. However, fuzzing large and complex programs remains challenging due to difficulties…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Dongdong She , Adam Storek , Yuchong Xie , Seoyoung Kweon , Prashast Srivastava , Suman Jana

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 is a powerful software testing technique renowned for its effectiveness in identifying software vulnerabilities. Traditional fuzzing evaluations typically focus on overall fuzzer performance across a set of target programs, yet few…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Miao Miao

Fuzz testing has been used to find bugs in programs since the 1990s, but despite decades of dedicated research, there is still no consensus on which fuzzing techniques work best. One reason for this is the paucity of ground truth: bugs in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Joshua Bundt , Andrew Fasano , Brendan Dolan-Gavitt , William Robertson , Tim Leek

Developers utilize third-party libraries to improve productivity, which also introduces potential security risks. Existing approaches generate tests for public functions to trigger library vulnerabilities from client programs, yet they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yukai Zhao , Menghan Wu , Xing Hu , Shaohua Wang , Meng Luo , Xin Xia

We present a coverage-guided testing algorithm for distributed systems implementations. Our main innovation is the use of an abstract formal model of the system that is used to define coverage. Such abstract models are frequently developed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ege Berkay Gulcan , Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan , Rupak Majumdar , Srinidhi Nagendra