From owner-freebsd-audit Mon Jul 31 4:10: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B83537BC6A for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 04:09:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id EAA02659 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 04:09:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 04:09:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: audit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fuzz testing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Well, if anyone is looking for something to do, this came up on bugtraq: > > ftp://grilled.cs.wisc.edu/fuzz/ > > basically it's a set of tools which stuff random input into command-line > utils to look for bugs. There are probably a few easy targets here (well, > I know there are)..if you find one, check with OpenBSD to see if they've > already fixed it to save yourself some work. For example: a2p.core as.core csh.core flex++.core flex.core sh.core :-) Other bugs this can expose are data dependent infinite loops. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message