Chapter 4. Open Source Fuzzing Tools

Solutions in this chapter:

Introduction

Fuzzing tools typically fall into one of three categories: fuzzing frameworks, special-purpose tools, and general-purpose fuzzers.

Fuzzing frameworks are good if you are looking to write your own fuzzer or need to fuzz a customer or proprietary protocol. The advantage is that the tool set is provided by the framework; the disadvantage is that all open source fuzzing frameworks are far from complete and most are very immature.

Special-purpose tools are usually fuzzers that were written for a specific protocol or application. While they can usually be extended, they are fairly limited to fuzzing anything outside ...

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