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ICs VuLnerABILItIes
Fuzzing can be both deliberate and accidental. Under the heading
of “deliberate fuzzing,” purpose-built test equipment can be bought.
ese testers will take well-known legacy protocols that have been
ported to IP and start to play with the headers, payload, command set,
packet sizes, and any other variable imaginables. Under the heading
“accidental fuzzing” would be naturally occurring conditions where
network trac is corrupted in a nondeterministic, stochastic man-
ner, meaning in a random way. e causes of such corruption would
most frequently be electron magnetic interference close to cables or
conduits. Such interference ...