The Fuzzing Hype-Train: How Random Testing Triggers Thousands of Crashes
https://nebelwelt.net/blog/2019/0401-FuzzTrain.html [nebelwelt.net]
2019-04-02 04:50
Despite massive efforts, finding and reproducing bugs is incredibly hard. Fuzzing is an efficient way of discovering security critical bugs by triggering exceptions such as crashes, memory corruption, or assertion failures automatically (or with a little help) and comes with a witness (proof of the vulnerability) that allows developers to reproduce the bug and fix it.