2 ms·
So, what's a "fuzzer"? =/
by vishaldpatel 12y ago
So, what's a "fuzzer"? =/
- jcr 12y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing
- charleslmunger 12y agoA fuzzer is a tool that generates malformed input to try and trigger crashes in parsers, usually with the hope of finding a bug that can be turned into a security exploit.
- zurn 12y agoParsing bugs is one category of tickled bugs, another is correctly encoded values that confuse the deeper logic layers. Eg heartbleed was the latter.