Fuzzed - a program to find DMDFE parser crash

Stefan Koch uplink.coder at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 17 10:12:44 UTC 2018


On Sunday, 16 December 2018 at 14:24:54 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2018-12-15 16:37, Basile B. wrote:
>
>> This poisoning kills the interest of using a fuzzer. 99% of 
>> the crashes will be in hdrgen.
>
> Does that matter as long as the bug is found?

Well it's hard to tell if it's begin.
Generally in a compiler which is focused on speed, you accept 
crashing an really bogus input if it makes the parser run faster, 
because there is no chance of accepting corrupted code, which is 
what you need to be worried about.


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