On the (in)efficiency of fuzzing network protocols

IF 1.8 4区计算机科学 Q3 TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Annals of Telecommunications Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI:10.1007/s12243-024-01058-w

Seyed Behnam Andarzian, Cristian Daniele, Erik Poll

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Abstract

Fuzzing is a widely used and effective technique to test software. Unfortunately, certain systems, including network protocols, are more challenging to fuzz than others. An important complication with fuzzing network protocols is that this tends to be a slow process, which is problematic as fuzzing involves many test inputs. This article analyzes the root causes behind the inefficiency of fuzzing network protocols and strategies to avoid them. It extends our earlier work on network protocol fuzzers, which explored some of these strategies, to give a more comprehensive overview of overheads in fuzzing and ways to reduce them.

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论模糊网络协议的（不）效率

模糊测试是一种广泛使用且有效的软件测试技术。遗憾的是，某些系统（包括网络协议）比其他系统更难进行模糊测试。对网络协议进行模糊测试的一个重要复杂因素是，模糊测试往往是一个缓慢的过程，由于模糊测试涉及许多测试输入，这就造成了问题。本文分析了模糊网络协议效率低下的根本原因，以及避免这些原因的策略。我们早前在网络协议模糊器方面的工作曾探讨过其中一些策略，本文对这些策略进行了扩展，以更全面地概述模糊过程中的开销以及减少开销的方法。

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来源期刊

Annals of Telecommunications 工程技术-电信学

CiteScore

5.20

自引率

5.30%

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审稿时长

4.5 months

期刊介绍： Annals of Telecommunications is an international journal publishing original peer-reviewed papers in the field of telecommunications. It covers all the essential branches of modern telecommunications, ranging from digital communications to communication networks and the internet, to software, protocols and services, uses and economics. This large spectrum of topics accounts for the rapid convergence through telecommunications of the underlying technologies in computers, communications, content management towards the emergence of the information and knowledge society. As a consequence, the Journal provides a medium for exchanging research results and technological achievements accomplished by the European and international scientific community from academia and industry.