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The hallucination of code generation models hinders their applicability to systems requiring higher safety standards. One critical bottleneck in addressing code hallucination is the difficulty of identifying the functional correctness of…

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Software testing is becoming a critical part of the development cycle of embedded devices, enabling vulnerability detection. A well-studied approach of software testing is fuzz-testing (fuzzing), during which mutated input is sent to an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Philip Sperl , Konstantin Böttinger

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

Jailbreak vulnerabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs), which exploit meticulously crafted prompts to elicit content that violates service guidelines, have captured the attention of research communities. While model owners can defend…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Dongyu Yao , Jianshu Zhang , Ian G. Harris , Marcel Carlsson

LLM applications are AI systems whose nondeterministic outputs and evolving model behavior make traditional testing insufficient for release governance. We present an automated self-testing framework that introduces quality gates with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Alexandre Cristovão Maiorano

Software vulnerabilities pose critical security threats, with nearly 50,000 CVEs reported in 2025. While Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for automated vulnerability detection, three key challenges remain. First, LLM-generated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ze Sheng , Zhicheng Chen , Qingxiao Xu , Kewen Zhu , Jeff Huang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed across diverse domains, yet their vulnerability to jailbreak attacks, where adversarial inputs bypass safety mechanisms to elicit harmful outputs, poses significant security risks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Qingchao Shen , Zibo Xiao , Lili Huang , Enwei Hu , Yongqiang Tian , Junjie Chen

Bounded model checking (BMC) and fuzzing techniques are among the most effective methods for detecting errors and security vulnerabilities in software. However, there are still shortcomings in detecting these errors due to the inability of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Kaled M. Alshmrany , Mohannad Aldughaim , Ahmed Bhayat , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Large language models (LLMs) have recently experienced tremendous popularity and are widely used from casual conversations to AI-driven programming. However, despite their considerable success, LLMs are not entirely reliable and can give…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Jiahao Yu , Xingwei Lin , Zheng Yu , Xinyu Xing

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

As autonomous driving systems (ADS) advance towards higher levels of autonomy, orchestrating their safety verification becomes increasingly intricate. This paper unveils ScenarioFuzz, a pioneering scenario-based fuzz testing methodology.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Tong Wang , Taotao Gu , Huan Deng , Hu Li , Xiaohui Kuang , Gang Zhao

Automated Program Repair (APR) plays a critical role in enhancing the quality and reliability of software systems. While substantial progress has been made in Java-based APR, largely facilitated by benchmarks like Defects4J, there remains a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Jian Wang , Xiaofei Xie , Qiang Hu , Shangqing Liu , Jiongchi Yu , Jiaolong Kong , Yi Li

The identification and localization of errors is a core task in peer review, yet the exponential growth of scientific output has made it increasingly difficult for human reviewers to reliably detect errors given the limited pool of experts.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Sarina Xi , Vishisht Rao , Justin Payan , Nihar B. Shah

With the wide use of Deep Learning (DL) systems, academy and industry begin to pay attention to their quality. Testing is one of the major methods of quality assurance. However, existing testing techniques focus on the quality of DL models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Weisi Luo , Dong Chai , Xiaoyue Run , Jiang Wang , Chunrong Fang , Zhenyu Chen

Generation-based fuzzing is a software testing approach which is able to discover different types of bugs and vulnerabilities in software. It is, however, known to be very time consuming to design and fine tune classical fuzzers to achieve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Martin Sablotny , Bjørn Sand Jensen , Chris W. Johnson

Programmable Logic Controllers are used for smart homes, in production processes or to control critical infrastructures. Modern industrial devices in the control level are often communicating over proprietary protocols on top of TCP/IP with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Matthias Niedermaier , Florian Fischer , Alexander von Bodisco

In recent years, REST API fuzzing has emerged to explore errors on a cloud service. Its performance highly depends on the sequence construction and request generation. However, existing REST API fuzzers have trouble generating long…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Chenyang Lyu , Jiacheng Xu , Shouling Ji , Xuhong Zhang , Qinying Wang , Binbin Zhao , Gaoning Pan , Wei Cao , Raheem Beyah

Many modern software systems are enabled by deep learning libraries such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. As deep learning is now prevalent, the security of deep learning libraries is a key concern. Fuzzing deep learning libraries presents two…

Fuzzing has achieved tremendous success in discovering bugs and vulnerabilities in various software systems. Systems under test (SUTs) that take in programming or formal language as inputs, e.g., compilers, runtime engines, constraint…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Chunqiu Steven Xia , Matteo Paltenghi , Jia Le Tian , Michael Pradel , Lingming Zhang

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.…

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