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Anyone requiring a solution to detect coding errors and security vulnerabilities
About Honggfuzz
Honggfuzz is a security-oriented software fuzzer. Supports evolutionary, feedback-driven fuzzing based on code coverage (SW and HW-based). It’s multi-process and multi-threaded, there’s no need to run multiple copies of your fuzzer, as Honggfuzz can unlock the potential of all your available CPU cores with a single running instance. The file corpus is automatically shared and improved between all fuzzed processes. It’s blazingly fast when the persistent fuzzing mode is used. A simple/empty LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput function can be tested with up to 1mo iteration per second on a relatively modern CPU. Has a solid track record of uncovered security bugs, the only (to date) vulnerability in OpenSSL with the critical score mark was discovered by Honggfuzz. As opposed to other fuzzers, it will discover and report hijacked/ignored signals from crashes (intercepted and potentially hidden by a fuzzed program).
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github.com/google/honggfuzz
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