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FIRM-AFL: High-Throughput Greybox Fuzzing of IoT Firmware via Augmented Process Emulation

Yaowen Zheng,Ali Davanian,3 Authors,Limin Sun

2019 · DBLP: conf/uss/ZhengDYSZS19
USENIX Security Symposium · 279 Citations

TLDR

F IRM - AFL addresses two fundamental problems in IoT fuzzing by enabling fuzzing for POSIX-compatible firmware that can be emulated in a system emulator and addressing the performance bottleneck caused by system-mode emulation with a novel technique called augmented process emulation.