FormatFuzzer: Effective Fuzzing of Binary File Formats. (arXiv:2109.11277v2 [cs.SE] UPDATED)

Effective fuzzing of programs that process structured binary inputs, such as
multimedia files, is a challenging task, since those programs expect a very
specific input format. Existing fuzzers, however, are mostly format-agnostic,
which makes them versatile, but also ineffective when a specific format is
required. We present FormatFuzzer, a generator for format-specific fuzzers.
FormatFuzzer takes as input a binary template (a format specification used by
the 010 Editor) and compiles it into C++ code that acts as parser, mutator, and …

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