0-knowledge fuzzing
Vincenzo Iozzo · 2010
Nowadays fuzzing is a pretty common technique used both by attackers and software developers. Currently known techniques usually involve knowing the protocol/format that needs to be fuzzed and having a basic understanding of how the user input is processed inside the binary. In the past since fuzzing was little-used obtaining good results with a small amount of effort was possible. Today finding bugs requires digging a lot inside the code and the user-input as common vulnerabilies are already identified and fixed by developers. This paper will present an idea on how to effectively fuzz with no knowledge of the userinput and the binary. Specifically the paper will demonstrate how techniques like code coverage, data tainting and inmemory fuzzing allow to build a smart fuzzer with no need to instrument it. 1