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Emilien Decoux
dblp:408/0046
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Software testing · 100% | |
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Security and privacy of machine learning · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Security and privacy of machine learning › adversarial attack › backdoor attack › backdoor defense
backdoor detection |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | ROSA: Finding Backdoors with Fuzzing · ICSE 2025 |
Software testing
fuzzing |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | ROSA: Finding Backdoors with Fuzzing · ICSE 2025 |
Software testing › test oracle
metamorphic test oracle |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | ROSA: Finding Backdoors with Fuzzing · ICSE 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
metamorphic testing · 1.7graybox fuzzing · 0.9gray-box fuzzing · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | ROSA: Finding Backdoors with FuzzingabstractA code-level backdoor is a hidden access, programmed and concealed within the code of a program. For instance, hard-coded credentials planted in the code of a file server application would enable maliciously logging into all deployed instances of this application. Confirmed software supplychain attacks have led to the injection of backdoors into popular open-source projects, and backdoors have been discovered in various router firmware. Manual code auditing for backdoors is challenging and existing semi-automated approaches can handle only a limited scope of programs and backdoors, while requiring manual reverse-engineering of the audited (binary) program. Graybox fuzzing (automated semi-randomized testing) has grown in popularity due to its success in discovering vulnerabilities and hence stands as a strong candidate for improved backdoor detection. However, current fuzzing knowledge does not offer any means to detect the triggering of a backdoor at runtime. In this work we introduce ROSA, a novel approach (and tool) which combines a state-of-the-art fuzzer (AFL++) with a new metamorphic test oracle, capable of detecting runtime backdoor triggers. To facilitate the evaluation of ROSA, we have created ROSARUM, the first openly available benchmark for assessing the detection of various backdoors in diverse programs. Experimental evaluation shows that ROSA has a level of robustness, speed and automation similar to classical fuzzing. It finds all 17 authentic or synthetic backdooors from ROSARUM in 1 h 30 on average. Compared to existing detection tools, it can handle a diversity of backdoors and programs and it does not rely on manual reverse-engineering of the fuzzed binary code. Dimitri Kokkonis, Michaël Marcozzi, Emilien Decoux, Stefano Zacchiroli |
ICSE | 3 |