Protocol implementations are stateful which makes them difficult to test: Sending the same test input message twice might yield a different response every time. Our proposal to consider a sequence of messages as a seed for coverage-directed greybox fuzzing, to associate each message with the corresponding protocol state, and to maximize the coverage of both the state space and the code was first published in 2020 in a short tool demonstration paper. AFLNet was the first code- and state-coverage-guided protocol fuzzer; it used the response code as an indicator of the current protocol state. Over the past five years, the tool paper has gathered hundreds of citations, the code repository was forked almost 200 times and has seen over thirty pull requests from practitioners and researchers, and our initial proposal has been improved upon in many significant ways. In this paper, we first provide an extended discussion and a full empirical evaluation of the technical contributions of AFLNet and then reflect on the impact that our approach and our tool had in the past five years, on both the research and the practice of protocol fuzzing.
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14:00 - 15:30 | Fuzzing 2Industry Papers / Journal First / Ideas, Visions and Reflections / Research Papers at Aurora B Chair(s): Haipeng Cai University at Buffalo, SUNY | ||
14:00 20mTalk | AFLNet Five Years Later: On Coverage-Guided Protocol Fuzzing Journal First Ruijie Meng National University of Singapore, Singapore, Thuan Pham University of Melbourne, Marcel Böhme MPI for Security and Privacy, Abhik Roychoudhury National University of Singapore | ||
14:20 20mTalk | My Fuzzers Won’t Build: An Empirical Study of Fuzzing Build Failures Journal First Olivier Nourry The University of Osaka, Yutaro Kashiwa Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Weiyi Shang University of Waterloo, Honglin Shu Kyushu University, Yasutaka Kamei Kyushu University | ||
14:40 20mTalk | Directed Testing in MLIR: Unleashing Its Potential by Overcoming the Limitations of Random Fuzzing Research Papers Weiyuan Tong Northwest University, Zixu Wang Northwest University, Zhanyong Tang Northwest University, Jianbin Fang National University of Defense Technology, Yuqun Zhang Southern University of Science and Technology, Guixin Ye Northwest University DOI | ||
15:00 10mTalk | GAFLERNA Ahoy! Integrating EM Side-Channel Analysis into Traditional Fuzzing Workflows Ideas, Visions and Reflections Jorge Barredo IKERLAN, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Justyna Petke University College London, David Clark University College London, Daniel Blackwell University College London, Maialen Eceiza IKERLAN, Jose Luis Flores University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Mikel Iturbe Mondragon Unibertsitatea | ||
15:10 20mTalk | Grey-Box Fuzzing in Constrained Ultra-Large Systems: Lessons for SE Community Industry Papers Jiazhao Yu Sun Yat-sen University, Yanlun Tu Ant Group, Zhanlei Zhang Macquaire University, TIEHUA ZHANG Tongji University, Cheng Xu Ant Group, Weigang Wu Sun Yat-sen University, Hong Jin Kang University of Sydney, Xi Zheng Macquarie University | ||
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