# 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.

- Authors: Chuan Hong; Zheng Zhang; Lei Zhou; Laisong Li; Chenyifan Liu; Ze Huang; Xu Zhou; Peihong Lin
- 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
- Sources reviewed: 2026-10-20
- Added to the catalog: 2026-10-20
- Original paper: <https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24549>
- PDF: <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.24549v1>
- BibTeX: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/citations/paper-firmcure.bib>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/paper-firmcure/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/paper-firmcure/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/papers/paper-firmcure/index.md)

## 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 notes

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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24549v1>
2. <https://arxiv.org/html/2606.24549v1>

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