Hacker News with Generative AI: Fuzzing

Breaking the Sound Barrier Part I: Fuzzing CoreAudio with Mach Messages (blogspot.com)
Every second, highly-privileged MacOS system daemons accept and process hundreds of IPC messages. In some cases, these message handlers accept data from sandboxed or unprivileged processes.

Security, Operating Systems, Fuzzing, macOS

9 points by weinzierl 6 days ago | 0 comments

Breaking the Sound Barrier Part I: Fuzzing CoreAudio with Mach Messages (blogspot.com)
Every second, highly-privileged MacOS system daemons accept and process hundreds of IPC messages. In some cases, these message handlers accept data from sandboxed or unprivileged processes.

Security, MacOS, Fuzzing, CoreAudio, IPC

49 points by MajesticHobo2 12 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Autarkie – Instant grammar fuzzing using Rust macros (github.com/R9295)
Autarkie is a native grammar fuzzer built in Rust. Using procedural macros, it (almost completely) automatically creates a grammar fuzzer.

Rust, Fuzzing, Grammar, Programming Tools

41 points by r9295 25 days ago | 4 comments

Fuzzing between the lines in popular barcode software (trailofbits.com)
Fuzzing—one of the most successful techniques for finding security bugs, consistently featured in articles and industry conferences—has become so popular that you may think most important software has already been extensively fuzzed. But that’s not always the case.

Security, Software, Fuzzing, Barcode Software

179 points by ingve 204 days ago | 55 comments

Fuzzing 101 (github.com/antonio-morales)
Do you want to learn how to fuzz like a real expert, but don't know how to start?

Security, Programming, Fuzzing, Tutorials

280 points by udev4096 230 days ago | 17 comments

Automated feature testing of Verilog parsers using fuzzing (wordpress.com)
I’m delighted that Quentin Corradi, a PhD student I jointly supervise with George Constantinides, will be presenting his work to improve the reliability of hardware design tools next week at the FUZZING’24 workshop, a satellite event of the ISSTA conference.

Hardware Design, Software Testing, Fuzzing

15 points by matt_d 255 days ago | 2 comments

Build Simple Fuzzer (2020) (carstein.github.io)
We are locked in our houses now and it is not easy. In situations like this it is important to have a pet project on the side so you don’t get crazy. Well, after seeing what some people post on twitter I think it is actually too late for some. Anyway, for the remaining few I’ve decided to start a short series that will focus on writing a simple fuzzer from scratch.