Question about second preimage resistance of hash function combiner Let $\Pi=(Gen_1,H_1)$ and $\Pi=(Gen_2,H_2)$ be two hash functions. Define $(Gen, H)$ so that $Gen$ runs $Gen_1$ and $Gen_2$ obtaining $s_1$ and $s_2$ respectively. Then let $H^{s_1,s_2}(x)=H^{s_1}(x)\|H^{s_2}(x)$, is it second pre-image resistant if at least one of $H^{s_1}$ and $H^{s_2}$ is second pre-image resistant? 

I have found the paper Multicollisions in iterated functions, application to cascaded constructions.by Antoine Joux and it showed that the hash function $H^{s_1,s_2}(x)$ is not secure. But does this approach work for every hash function?
The answer you are looking for is that a pre-image/2nd pre-image attack on two combined hash functions is at least as difficult as an attack on the stronger of the two hash functions.

Take a look at Joux's paper on multi-collisions. There is a section on pre-image attacks for concatenated outputs. (I suggest reading the entire thing. It's one of those rare short, to the point, easy to read papers.)

The attack described in the paper has complexity of:

$n_g2^{{n_f}/2} + 2^{n_f} + 2^{n_g}$

For two hash functions of length $n_f$ bits and $n_g$ bits where $n_f \leq n_g$