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Existing LLM-based compiler fuzzers often produce syntactically or semantically invalid test programs, limiting their effectiveness in exercising compiler optimizations and backend components. We introduce ReFuzzer, a framework for refining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-02 Iti Shree , Karine Even-Mendoza , Tomasz Radzik

Modern fuzzers increasingly use Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate structured inputs, but LLM-driven fuzzing is sensitive to prompt initialization and sampling variance, which can reduce exploration efficiency and lead to redundant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Mario Rodríguez Béjar , B. Romera-Paredes , Jose L. Hernández-Ramos

Although Rust ensures memory safety by default, it also permits the use of unsafe code, which can introduce memory safety vulnerabilities if misused. Unfortunately, existing tools for detecting memory bugs in Rust typically exhibit limited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Georgios Androutsopoulos , Antonio Bianchi

GPU memory errors are a critical threat to deep learning (DL) frameworks, leading to crashes or even security issues. We introduce GPU-Fuzz, a fuzzer locating these issues efficiently by modeling operator parameters as formal constraints.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zihao Li , Hongyi Lu , Yanan Guo , Zhenkai Zhang , Shuai Wang , Fengwei Zhang

Internet of Things (IoT) devices offer convenience through web interfaces, web VPNs, and other web-based services, all relying on the HTTP protocol. However, these externally exposed HTTP services resent significant security risks. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Zhe Yang , Hao Peng , Yanling Jiang , Xingwei Li , Haohua Du , Shuhai Wang , Jianwei Liu

Directed greybox fuzzing (DGF) focuses on efficiently reaching specific program locations or triggering particular behaviors, making it essential for tasks like vulnerability detection and crash reproduction. However, existing methods often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Hanxiang Xu , Yanjie Zhao , Haoyu Wang

Timing vulnerabilities in processors have emerged as a potent threat. As processors are the foundation of any computing system, identifying these flaws is imperative. Recently fuzzing techniques, traditionally used for detecting software…

Fuzzing is widely used for detecting bugs and vulnerabilities, with various techniques proposed to enhance its effectiveness. To combine the advantages of multiple technologies, researchers proposed ensemble fuzzing, which integrates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yukai Zhao , Shaohua Wang , Jue Wang , Xing Hu , Xin Xia

Industrial control systems (ICS) are vital to modern infrastructure but increasingly vulnerable to cybersecurity threats, particularly through weaknesses in their communication protocols. This paper presents MALF (Multi-Agent LLM Fuzzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Bowei Ning , Xuejun Zong , Kan He

Fuzzing is a technique of finding bugs by executing a software recurrently with a large number of abnormal inputs. Most of the existing fuzzers consider all parts of a software equally, and pay too much attention on how to improve the code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Yuwei Li , Shouling Ji , Chenyang Lv , Yuan Chen , Jianhai Chen , Qinchen Gu , Chunming Wu

Deep learning (DL) frameworks serve as the backbone for a wide range of artificial intelligence applications. However, bugs within DL frameworks can cascade into critical issues in higher-level applications, jeopardizing reliability and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shiwen Ou , Yuwei Li , Lu Yu , Chengkun Wei , Tingke Wen , Qiangpu Chen , Yu Chen , Haizhi Tang , Zulie Pan

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

Vulnerabilities in open-source operating systems (OSs) pose substantial security risks to software systems, making their detection crucial. While fuzzing has been an effective vulnerability detection technique in various domains, OS fuzzing…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kun Hu , Qicai Chen , Wenzhuo Zhang , Zilong Lu , Bihuan Chen , You Lu , Haowen Jiang , Bingkun Sun , Xin Peng , Wenyun Zhao

Software vulnerabilities are constantly being reported and exploited in software products, causing significant impacts on society. In recent years, the main approach to vulnerability detection, fuzzing, has been integrated into the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Tatsuya Shirai , Olivier Nourry , Yutaro Kashiwa , Kenji Fujiwara , Yasutaka Kamei , Hajimu Iida

Automatic test-case generation techniques of symbolic execution and fuzzing are the most widely used methods to discover vulnerabilities in, both, academia and industry. However, both these methods suffer from fundamental drawbacks that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Saahil Ognawala , Alexander Pretschner , Thomas Hutzelmann , Eirini Psallida , Ricardo Nales Amato

MLIR (Multi-Level Intermediate Representation) has rapidly become a foundational technology for modern compiler frameworks, enabling extensibility across diverse domains. However, ensuring the correctness and robustness of MLIR itself…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Zeyu Sun , Jingjing Liang , Weiyi Wang , Chenyao Suo , Junjie Chen , Fanjiang Xu

Network protocols are the foundation of modern communication, yet their implementations often contain semantic vulnerabilities stemming from inadequate understanding of specification semantics. Existing gray-box and black-box testing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yanbang Sun , Quan Luo , Yuelin Wang , Qian Chen , Benjin Liu , Ruiqi Chen , Qing Huang , Xiaohong Li , Junjie Wang

Testing network protocol implementations is critical for ensuring the reliability, security, and interoperability of distributed systems. Faults in protocol behavior can lead to vulnerabilities and system failures, especially in real-time…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Changze Huang , Di Wang , Zhi Quan Zhou

Fuzzing is a popular vulnerability automated testing method utilized by professionals and broader community alike. However, despite its abilities, fuzzing is a time-consuming, computationally expensive process. This is problematic for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Michael Wang , Michael Robinson

The increasing complexity of modern processors poses many challenges to existing hardware verification tools and methodologies for detecting security-critical bugs. Recent attacks on processors have shown the fatal consequences of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Aakash Tyagi , Addison Crump , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Garrett Persyn , Jeyavijayan Rajendran , Patrick Jauernig , Rahul Kande