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Lightning Talk: Fuzzing glibc's iconv program

25 Aug 2020, 08:30
10m
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Speaker

Arjun Shankar (Red Hat)

Description

A while back, I found myself triaging an iconv bug report that found hangs
in the program when run with certain inputs. Not knowing a lot about iconv
internals, I wrote a rudimentary fuzzer to investigate the problem, which
caught over 160 different input combinations that led to hangs and a clear
pattern hinting at the cause.

In this short talk, I'll share my experiences with fuzzing iconv and
eventually cleaning up some of the iconv front-end with a patch.

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Primary author

Arjun Shankar (Red Hat)

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