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syzkaller is an unsupervised coverage-guided kernel fuzzer
20 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 4 stories, 16 comments · first 2017-01-25 · latest 2025-08-24
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google/syzkaller @main: https://github.com/google/syzkaller But there is also fuzztest? google/fuzztest: https://github.com/google/fuzztest
comment by westurner · 2025-08-24 · in Google Develops KFuzzTest for Fuzzing Internal Linux Kernel Functions -
…: - e.g. Google/syzkaller is a coverage-guided syscall fuzzer: https://github.com/google/syzkaller - Gitlab CI supports coverage-guided fuzzing: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/application_security/coverag... - oss-fuzz,
comment by westurner · 2024-02-18 · in Automated Unit Test Improvement Using Large Language Models at Meta -
…a lot quicker. Google have a project to do fuzzing on Linux system calls using coverage feedback: https://github.com/google/syzkaller
comment by rwmj · 2023-08-18 · in Fuzz testing: the best thing to happen to our application tests -
…calls are made by a process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strace#Similar_tools Google/syzkaller https://github.com/google/syzkaller : > syzkaller ([siːzˈkɔːlə]) is an unsupervised coverage-guided kernel fuzzer. Supported OSes: Akaros,…
comment by westurner · 2022-10-30 · in Linux System Call Table – Chromiumos -
Also see https://github.com/google/syzkaller - lots of kernel bugs found by this one
comment by dilyevsky · 2020-12-06 · in Gustave – Embedded OS kernel fuzzer -
…docs[0] and then read the syzkaller papers[1] [0] https://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html [1] https://github.com/google/syzkaller https://github.com/google/syzkaller
comment by big_youth · 2020-07-25 · in Kernel state based fuzzer: a LLVM approach -
Syzkaller fuzzes that stuff. https://github.com/google/syzkaller
comment by pcwalton · 2019-12-18 · in Linux 3.8 introduced unprivileged user namespaces [pdf] -
…But otherwise it will be running 24/7 (across multiple VMs!) looking for issues. More details here: https://github.com/google/syzkaller
comment by outworlder · 2019-11-22 · in Bad Binder: Android In-the-Wild Exploit -
…by an external agent). [1] https://github.com/google/gvisor/tree/master/test/syscalls/l... [2] https://github.com/google/syzkaller [3] https://gvisor.dev/docs/architecture_guide/overview/
comment by prattmic · 2019-05-16 · in GKE Sandbox: Independent operating system kernel to each container -
…people, you can find kernel bugs at will with kernel fuzzers like syzkaller from Google. Look at https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/found_b... and weep.
comment by sanxiyn · 2019-01-22 · in CompCert – A formally verified C compiler -
…issues found in the OpenBSD kernel, including two[2][3] issues with kqueue. Pretty cool stuff! [1] https://github.com/google/syzkaller [2] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=153364550327224&w=2 [3] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=1529300…
comment by merlincorey · 2018-09-06 · in Fuzzing the OpenBSD Kernel [pdf] -
…fuzzy lop" and "syzkaller" have gone through the kernel and found dozens of use-after-free's (see https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/4bd70f/docs/linux/f... ), shows that even incredibly carefully programmed C messes up in totally…
comment by TheDong · 2017-11-26 · in Rust: Enable WebAssembly backend by default -
Wow, they found 458 bugs in the linux kernel: https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/found_b...
comment by mastax · 2017-06-15 · in How I Found a 20-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug -
Something like https://github.com/google/syzkaller ?
comment by aleksi · 2017-06-14 · in How I Found a 20-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug -
…and exploitable bugs for Linux [1] [2]. [1] https://github.com/kernelslacker/trinity [2] https://github.com/google/syzkaller/
comment by avisaven · 2017-05-26 · in How Dirty COW works from the Linux kernel’s perspective -
Some of the tools have been: https://github.com/google/syzkaller
comment by strstr · 2017-01-25 · in Ways we harden our KVM hypervisor at Google Cloud: Security in plaintext