[HN Gopher] What Is Fuzz Testing? ___________________________________________________________________ What Is Fuzz Testing? Author : andrei Score : 18 points Date : 2021-04-07 21:43 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (blog.fuzzbuzz.io) (TXT) w3m dump (blog.fuzzbuzz.io) | 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: | I wrote a rudimentary fuzzer at work for the sole purpose of | generating core dumps. It worked so well that I got a stern | talking to about not helping them release the software. | Forge36 wrote: | Did they expect to release on a non working state? | andrei wrote: | Basic fuzzers can surprisingly go a long way. Barton Miller | (the professor who first coined the term fuzzing), actually | wrote a paper last year [0] where he just ran a very basic | fuzzer against a bunch of common UNIX tools. Even after all | these years of testing/usage, they still managed to find a ton | of issues. | | [0]: | https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/59964/TR12... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-04-07 23:01 UTC)