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Dfuzzer: A D-Bus Service Fuzzing Tool

MARHEFKA Matúš and MÜLLER Petr. Dfuzzer: A D-Bus Service Fuzzing Tool. In: Proceedings of IEEE Seventh International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshopsn. Cleveland: IEEE Computer Society, 2014, pp. 383-389. ISBN 978-0-7695-5194-4.
Czech title
Dfuzzer: Nástroj pro fuzz testování D-Bus služeb
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
Marhefka Matúš, Ing. (FIT BUT)
Müller Petr, Ing. (DITS FIT BUT)
Keywords


D-Bus
fuzzer
fuzz testing
automated testing
pseudo-random data generation
IPC

Abstract

We present Dfuzzer, a fully automated tool for fuzz testing programs
communicating via D-Bus. D-Bus is the prevalent modern mechanism for an
inter-process communication in the GNU/Linux ecosystem. Using D-Bus introspection, Dfuzzer is able to
acquire the structure of the parameters expected by the target program. It can
then generate ballast data respecting this structure, so the target program
starts using such data incorrectly if it does not carefully validate it. We
have found numerous bugs in various parts of the GNU/Linux operating system,
including GNOME Shell and systemd.

Published
2014
Pages
383-389
Proceedings
Proceedings of IEEE Seventh International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshopsn
Conference
Seventh IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, Cleveland, US
ISBN
978-0-7695-5194-4
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Place
Cleveland, US
DOI
UT WoS
000356142700060
EID Scopus
BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB10534,
   author = "Mat\'{u}\v{s} Marhefka and Petr M{\"{u}}ller",
   title = "Dfuzzer: A D-Bus Service Fuzzing Tool",
   pages = "383--389",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of IEEE Seventh International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshopsn",
   year = 2014,
   location = "Cleveland, US",
   publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
   ISBN = "978-0-7695-5194-4",
   doi = "10.1109/ICSTW.2014.51",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/10534"
}
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