Fuzzing: a survey for roadmap

X Zhu, S Wen, S Camtepe, Y Xiang - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2022 - dl.acm.org
Fuzz testing (fuzzing) has witnessed its prosperity in detecting security flaws recently. It
generates a large number of test cases and monitors the executions for defects. Fuzzing has …

Fuzzing vulnerability discovery techniques: Survey, challenges and future directions

C Beaman, M Redbourne, JD Mummery, S Hakak - Computers & Security, 2022 - Elsevier
Fuzzing is a powerful tool for vulnerability discovery in software, with much progress being
made in the field in recent years. There is limited literature available on the fuzzing …

Fuzzbench: an open fuzzer benchmarking platform and service

J Metzman, L Szekeres, L Simon, R Sprabery… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Fuzzing is a key tool used to reduce bugs in production software. At Google, fuzzing has
uncovered tens of thousands of bugs. Fuzzing is also a popular subject of academic …

Smartian: Enhancing smart contract fuzzing with static and dynamic data-flow analyses

J Choi, D Kim, S Kim, G Grieco… - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unlike traditional software, smart contracts have the unique organization in which a
sequence of transactions shares persistent states. Unfortunately, such a characteristic …

On the reliability of coverage-based fuzzer benchmarking

M Böhme, L Szekeres, J Metzman - Proceedings of the 44th International …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Given a program where none of our fuzzers finds any bugs, how do we know which fuzzer is
better? In practice, we often look to code coverage as a proxy measure of fuzzer …

Harvey: A greybox fuzzer for smart contracts

V Wüstholz, M Christakis - Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We present Harvey, an industrial greybox fuzzer for smart contracts, which are programs
managing accounts on a blockchain. Greybox fuzzing is a lightweight test-generation …

{UNIFUZZ}: A holistic and pragmatic {Metrics-Driven} platform for evaluating fuzzers

Y Li, S Ji, Y Chen, S Liang, WH Lee, Y Chen… - 30th USENIX Security …, 2021 - usenix.org
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 …

Sok: Prudent evaluation practices for fuzzing

M Schloegel, N Bars, N Schiller… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fuzzing has proven to be a highly effective approach to uncover software bugs over the past
decade. After AFL popularized the groundbreaking concept of lightweight coverage …

SymQEMU: Compilation-based symbolic execution for binaries

S Poeplau, A Francillon - NDSS 2021, Network and Distributed System …, 2021 - hal.science
Symbolic execution is a powerful technique for software analysis and bug detection.
Compilation-based symbolic execution is a recently proposed flavor that has been shown to …

[PDF][PDF] Reinforcement learning-based hierarchical seed scheduling for greybox fuzzing

J Wang, C Song, H Yin - 2021 - escholarship.org
Coverage metrics play an essential role in greybox fuzzing. Recent work has shown that fine-
grained coverage metrics could allow a fuzzer to detect bugs that cannot be covered by …