JONÁŠ, Martin, Jan STREJČEK, Marek TRTÍK and Lukáš URBAN. Gray-Box Fuzzing via Gradient Descent and Boolean Expression Coverage. Online. In Bernd Finkbeiner and Laura Kovács. Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems - 30th International Conference, TACAS 2024, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2024, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, April 6-11, 2024, Proceedings, Part III. Cham (Švýcarsko): Springer, 2024, p. 90-109. ISBN 978-3-031-57255-5. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57256-2_5.
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Original name Gray-Box Fuzzing via Gradient Descent and Boolean Expression Coverage
Authors JONÁŠ, Martin (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jan STREJČEK (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Marek TRTÍK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Lukáš URBAN (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution).
Edition Cham (Švýcarsko), Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems - 30th International Conference, TACAS 2024, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2024, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, April 6-11, 2024, Proceedings, Part III, p. 90-109, 20 pp. 2024.
Publisher Springer
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Original language English
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
Field of Study 10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
Country of publisher Germany
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form electronic version available online
WWW URL
Impact factor Impact factor: 0.402 in 2005
Organization unit Faculty of Informatics
ISBN 978-3-031-57255-5
ISSN 0302-9743
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57256-2_5
Keywords in English fuzzing; test generation; atomic Boolean expression; Fizzer
Tags formela-conference, formela-ver, fuzzing, program analysis, test generation
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: prof. RNDr. Jan Strejček, Ph.D., učo 3366. Changed: 24/4/2024 13:33.
Abstract
We present a gray-box fuzzing approach based on several new ideas. While standard gray-box fuzzing aims to cover all branches of the input program, our approach primarily aims to cover both results of each Boolean expression. To achieve this goal, we track the distances to flipping these results and we dynamically detect the input bytes that influence the distance. Then we use this information to efficiently flip the results. More precisely, we apply gradient descent on the detected bytes or we create new inputs by using detected bytes from different inputs. We implemented our approach in a tool called Fizzer. An evaluation on the benchmarks of Test-Comp 2023 shows that Fizzer is fully competitive with the winning tools of the competition, which use advanced formal methods like symbolic execution or bounded model checking, usually in combination with fuzzing.
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GA23-06506S, research and development projectName: Pokročilá analýza a verifikace pro pokročilý software
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Advanced Analysis and Verification for Advanced Software
MUNI/A/1608/2023, interní kód MUName: Zapojení studentů Fakulty informatiky do mezinárodní vědecké komunity 24
Investor: Masaryk University
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