AFL++ Fuzzing Framework

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  • AFLplusplus

    The fuzzer afl++ is afl with community patches, qemu 5.1 upgrade, collision-free coverage, enhanced laf-intel & redqueen, AFLfast++ power schedules, MOpt mutators, unicorn_mode, and a lot more!

  • oss-fuzz

    OSS-Fuzz - continuous fuzzing for open source software.

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20201210022938/https://lcamtuf.b...

    If you're fuzzing open source software, you might consider applying to OSS-Fuzz https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz which provides a lot of free compute power to run fuzzers (so that vulnerabilities can be found & fixed).

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • American Fuzzy Lop

    Discontinued american fuzzy lop - a security-oriented fuzzer

  • There's a good intro here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/a-brief-introd... and afl++'s main documentation is here https://aflplus.plus/ which talks a bit about it.

    The goal is to find bugs in code by throwing random data at it, in as an intelligent fashion as possible. You can do that a few ways:

    * Give structured data to mutate a bit.

    * Just throw random data at it. You could do this with any binary that accepts data either via stdin or from a file.

    * Instrument the code, throw random data at it and see what paths of code get triggered and feed that back into the data generator. Drawback is you need to be able to compile all the code involved, so it gets fully instrumented.

    AFL/AFL++ sits in the third camp. You compile your code using it, and it then uses information it gets back to figure out ways to trigger code paths, by applying intelligent mutations. It's possible to, e.g. have code that parses a PNG image file, start AFL++ off with no initial data, and it will fairly quickly start producing valid PNG images.

    It's a very effective approach for finding bugs. On the AFL++ site there's a small trophy cabinet, and AFL has a larger one (older project) https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/.

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