TSE · 2026
SnipTest: Fuzzing Multi-Level Code Slices for Validating Vulnerabilities
Aniruddhan Murali, Noble Saji Mathews, Mahmoud Alfadel*, Meng Xu, Meiyappan Nagappan
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Abstract
We present SnipTest, a technique that uses fuzzing on multi-level code slices to validate vulnerabilities. SnipTest uncovered 19 new vulnerabilities in heavily used open-source projects such as OpenSSL and libpcap, leading to one confirmed CVE-2025-11964.
security vulnerabilities