Evolutionary Mutation-based Fuzzing as Monte Carlo Tree Search. (arXiv:2101.00612v2 [cs.SE] UPDATED)

Coverage-based greybox fuzzing (CGF) has been approved to be effective in
finding security vulnerabilities. Seed scheduling, the process of selecting an
input as the seed from the seed pool for the next fuzzing iteration, plays a
central role in CGF. Although numerous seed scheduling strategies have been
proposed, most of them treat these seeds independently and do not explicitly
consider the relationships among the seeds.

In this study, we make a key observation that the relationships among seeds
are valuable …

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