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Nyx: Greybox Hypervisor Fuzzing using Fast Snapshots and Affine Types

Sergej Schumilo, Cornelius Aschermann, Ali Abbasi, Simon Wör­ner et al.

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NYX is a new hypervisor fuzzer that uses fast snapshots and a novel mutation engine with affine types to detect vulnerabilities. It uncovered 44 new bugs, including 22 with CVEs requested, significantly outperforming existing methods on complex targets.

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Field: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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