Seed scheduling algorithm for fuzzing stateful protocols

Xie Yuhao
Xu Xianghua
School of Computer Science, Hangzhou Dianzi University, HangZhou 310018, China

Abstract

In order to investigate vulnerabilities in stateful protocols, AFL-NET has put forward stateful protocol fuzz testing. In such fuzz testing, the selection of seeds makes a major contribution to the exploration of paths. However, current stateful protocol fuzz testers often repeatedly execute the same several seeds, resulting in an inability to effectively explore more paths. To alleviate this problem, starting from the gain of seeds, we propose an effective seed dynamic scheduling algorithm based on stateful protocols. The algorithm utilizes the potential gain, actual gain, and cost of seeds as the gain, using this gain to dynamically schedule seeds and allocate the number of times seeds are executed. Experiments show that this method significantly improves the number of vulnerabilities found and also has a certain degree of improvement in increasing coverage, indicating that the definition of this gain and the seed scheduling algorithm can effectively select seeds and explore more paths and vulnerabilities.

Publish Information

DOI: 10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2024.01.0053
Publish at: Application Research of Computers Accepted Paper, Vol. 41, 2024 No. 10

Publish History

[2024-07-05] Accepted Paper

Cite This Article

谢宇豪, 徐向华. 有状态协议模糊测试的种子调度算法 [J]. 计算机应用研究, 2024, 41 (10). (2024-07-12). https://doi.org/10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2024.01.0053. (Xie Yuhao, Xu Xianghua. Seed scheduling algorithm for fuzzing stateful protocols [J]. Application Research of Computers, 2024, 41 (10). (2024-07-12). https://doi.org/10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2024.01.0053. )

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