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 were not rerun.
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
Reviewed arXiv v1 as 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, so no official code link or code license is asserted.
Sources reviewed
Source review only; experiments were not rerun for this collection. Cite the original authors using the linked paper or BibTeX.