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most citedEmber-IO: Effective Firmware Fuzzing with Model-Free Memory Mapped IO

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cs.CR2026

InSPECtor: Improving SLEIGH Processor Specification Veracity via Proxy

Michael Chesser, Paul Quirk, Douglas Cooke +3

Processor specifications underpin critical security and program- analysis tools such as disassemblers, decompilers, and emulators, yet, their correctness is rarely examined. Errors…

cs.CR2026

DyMA-Fuzz: Dynamic Direct Memory Access Abstraction for Re-hosted Monolithic Firmware Fuzzing

Guy Farrelly, Michael Chesser, Seyit Camtepe +1

The rise of smart devices in critical domains--including automotive, medical, industrial--demands robust firmware testing. Fuzzing firmware in re-hosted environments is a promising…

cs.CR2026

FirmReBugger: A Benchmark Framework for Monolithic Firmware Fuzzers

Mathew Duong, Michael Chesser, Guy Farrelly +2

Monolithic Firmware is widespread. Unsurprisingly, fuzz testing firmware is an active research field with new advances addressing the unique challenges in the domain. However, unde…

cs.CR2025

An Automated Blackbox Noncompliance Checker for QUIC Server Implementations

Kian Kai Ang, Guy Farrelly, Cheryl Pope +1

We develop QUICtester, an automated approach for uncovering non-compliant behaviors in the ratified QUIC protocol implementations (RFC 9000/9001). QUICtester leverages active autom…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

SplITS: Split Input-to-State Mapping for Effective Firmware Fuzzing

Guy Farrelly, Paul Quirk, Salil S. Kanhere +2

Ability to test firmware on embedded devices is critical to discovering vulnerabilities prior to their adversarial exploitation. State-of-the-art automated testing methods rehost f…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

Ember-IO: Effective Firmware Fuzzing with Model-Free Memory Mapped IO

Guy Farrelly, Michael Chesser, Damith C. Ranasinghe

Exponential growth in embedded systems is driving the research imperative to develop fuzzers to automate firmware testing to uncover software bugs and security vulnerabilities. But…