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 …

When fuzzing meets llms: Challenges and opportunities

Y Jiang, J Liang, F Ma, Y Chen, C Zhou… - … Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Fuzzing, a widely-used technique for bug detection, has seen advancements through Large
Language Models (LLMs). Despite their potential, LLMs face specific challenges in fuzzing …

Towards better semantics exploration for browser fuzzing

C Zhou, Q Zhang, L Guo, M Wang, Y Jiang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Web browsers exhibit rich semantics that enable a plethora of web-based functionalities.
However, these intricate semantics present significant challenges for the implementation …

PolyJuice: Detecting Mis-compilation Bugs in Tensor Compilers with Equality Saturation Based Rewriting

C Zhou, B Qian, G Go, Q Zhang, S Li… - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Tensor compilers are essential for deploying deep learning applications across various
hardware platforms. While powerful, they are inherently complex and present significant …

Building dynamic system call sandbox with partial order analysis

Q Zhang, C Zhou, Y Xu, Z Yin, M Wang, Z Su… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Attack surface reduction is a security technique that secures the operating system by
removing the unnecessary code or features of a program. By restricting the system calls that …

DarthShader: Fuzzing WebGPU Shader Translators & Compilers

L Bernhard, N Schiller, M Schloegel, N Bars… - Proceedings of the 2024 …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
A recent trend towards running more demanding web applications, such as video games or
client-side LLMs, in the browser has led to the adoption of the WebGPU standard that …

[PDF][PDF] Janus: Detecting Rendering Bugs in Web Browsers via Visual Delta Consistency

C Zhou, Q Zhang, B Qian, Y Jiang - 2025 IEEE/ACM 47th …, 2024 - wingtecher.com
Rendering lies at the heart of our modern web experience. However, the correctness of
browser rendering is not always guaranteed, often leading to rendering bugs. Traditional …

Novelty Not Found: Exploring Input Shadowing in Fuzzing through Adaptive Fuzzer Restarts

N Schiller, X Xu, L Bernhard, N Bars… - ACM Transactions on …, 2025 - dl.acm.org
Greybox fuzzing enhances software security through unprecedented effectiveness in
automated fault detection. Its success lies in the coverage feedback extracted from the …

My Fuzzers Won't Build: An Empirical Study of Fuzzing Build Failures

O Nourry, Y Kashiwa, W Shang, H Shu… - ACM Transactions on …, 2025 - dl.acm.org
Fuzzing is an automated software testing technique used to find software vulnerabilities that
works by sending large amounts of inputs to a software system to trigger bad behaviors. In …

DFL: A DOM sample generation oriented fuzzing framework for browser rendering engines

G Duan, H Zhao, M Cai, J Sun, H Chen - Information and Software …, 2025 - Elsevier
The security of web browsers, being fundamental to Internet access infrastructure, has
garnered significant attention. Current approaches to identify browser vulnerabilities …