On: Fuzzing Like It’s 1989

[tyoma]

This was on Ubuntu 14.04 -- I know 14.04 is dated, but its the last image I had running from the previous tests :).

I wrote some stupidly simple bash to just pipe output of fuzz to every executable in /usr/bin/, with a 10 second timeout. This was only meant as a quick experiment, so there was no consideration of proper arguments (e.g. some applications may only read files and not stdin).

The following applications produced a core dump:

  /usr/bin/icontopbm
  /usr/bin/pnmmontage
  /usr/bin/pnmpsnr
  /usr/bin/rletopnm
  /usr/bin/nslookup
  /usr/bin/aleph
  /usr/bin/acpi_listen
  /usr/bin/info
  /usr/bin/xetex

[fanf2 → tyoma]

Is nslookup from bind9 or some other package? I think ISC might be interested in fixing the crash.