Hawkeye: Towards a desired directed grey-box fuzzer

• Main Authors: CHEN, Hongxu, XUE, Yinxing, LI, Yuekang, CHEN, Bihuan, XIE, Xiaofei, WU, Xiuheng, LIU, Yang
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Fuzz Testing; Static Analysis; Information Security; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7063; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8066/viewcontent/3243734.3243849.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Grey-box fuzzing is a practically effective approach to test real-world programs. However, most existing grey-box fuzzers lack directedness, i.e. the capability of executing towards user-specified target sites in the program. To emphasize existing challenges in directed fuzzing, we propose Hawkeye t...