Instrumented Fuzzing Tools and Techniques
Fuzzing should generally be performed with some form of instrumentation in place. The goal of fuzzing is to induce an observable error condition in a program. Tools such as memory monitors and debuggers are ideally suited for use with fuzzers. For example, valgrind will report when a fuzzer has caused a program executing under valgrind control to overflow a heap-allocated buffer. Debuggers will usually catch the fault induced when an invalid memory reference is made as a result of fuzzer provided input. Following the observation of an error, the difficult job of determining whether the error is exploitable really begins. Exploitability determination will be discussed in the next chapter.
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