2026 · Preprint
FirmCure:Towards Autonomous and Adaptive Rehosting of Linux-Based Firmware
FirmCure combines static dependency analysis, iterative boot-configuration repair and runtime fault diagnosis to rehost Linux firmware in QEMU. Specialized agents apply targeted repairs and use execution feedback to recover service behavior.
Scope and limitations
Evaluation covers 21 images from ten vendors and five architectures: all opened ports, but only 19 reached full service interactivity within 45 minutes. Substituting an approximate kernel cannot preserve original-kernel or dedicated-hardware vulnerabilities. LLM reasoning loops caused residual failures. These author-reported results.
Why it fits this collection
Connects binary inspection and failure diagnosis to evidence-driven firmware environment repair.
Publication and review details
- Venue
- arXiv
- Status
- Preprint
- Publication / posting date
- June 23, 2026
- Date source
- arXiv first submission date; no separate publication was verified.
- First arXiv submission
- June 23, 2026
- arXiv
- 2606.24549
- Reviewed arXiv version
- v1
ArXiv v1 is a preprint. Open Science mentions an anonymous repository without a locatable link. A same-named GitHub repository was not bound to this paper or its authors.
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