SoK: You Find What You Seek: Rethinking Oracles, Guidance, and Input Generation in Hardware Fuzzing

arXiv:2609.27300 · cs.CR, cs.AR · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.AR

Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Code: https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz

Terminology

• Verification — 91× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 18× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Design Automation Conference — 6× in this paper
• Trace — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Formal Verification — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design — 3× in this paper
• Score Function — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture — 1× in this paper
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Contextual Bandits — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hypergraph — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Conference on Software Engineering — 1× in this paper
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes
• Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust — 1× in this paper
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• VGF: Value-Guided Fuzzing -- Fuzzing Hardware as Hardware
• Coverage-Guided Pre-Silicon Fuzzing of Open-Source Processors based on Leakage Contracts
• SimFuzz: Similarity-guided Block-level Mutation for RISC-V Processor Fuzzing
• Logic Solver Guided Directed Fuzzing for Hardware Designs
• SynFuzz: Leveraging Fuzzing of Netlist to Detect Synthesis Bugs
• GoldenFuzz: Generative Golden Reference Hardware Fuzzing

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