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SeedSmith: LLM-Driven Seed Synthesis for Directed Fuzzing

Directed fuzzing steers fuzzers toward user-defined sink functions to identify vulnerabilities, but it frequently fails to trigger crashes even after long campaigns. We identify two challenges that prevent directed fuzzers from exposing cra

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08949v2 ↗
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