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About Fuzzing Project
Fuzzing is a powerful strategy to find bugs in software. The idea is quite simple, which is to generate a large number of randomly malformed inputs for the software to parse and see what happens. If the program crashes then something is likely wrong. While fuzzing is a well-known strategy, it is surprisingly easy to find bugs, often with security implications, in widely used software. Memory access errors are the errors most likely to be exposed when fuzzing software that is written in C/C++. While they differ in the details, the core problem is often the same, the software reads or writes to the wrong memory locations. A modern Linux or BSD system ships a large number of basic tools that do some kind of file displaying and parsing. In their current state, most of these tools are not suitable for untrusted inputs. On the other hand, we have powerful tools these days that allow us to find and analyze these bugs.
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