Bug#766760: ITP: american-fuzzy-lop -- instrumentation-driven fuzzer for binary formats

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>

* Package name    : american-fuzzy-lop
  Version         : 0.40b
  Upstream Author : Name <somebody@example.org>
* URL             : http://code.google.com/p/american-fuzzy-lop/
* License         : Apache License 2.0
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : instrumentation-driven fuzzer for binary formats

American fuzzy lop uses a novel type of compile-time instrumentation and 
genetic algorithms to automatically discover clean, interesting test 
cases and substantially improve the functional coverage for the tested 
code.

Compared to other instrumented fuzzers, the tool is designed to be 
practical: it has a modest performance overhead, uses a variety of 
highly effective fuzzing strategies, and seamlessly handles complex, 
real-world use cases - say, common image parsing or file compression 
libraries.

Using libjpeg as an example, the tool easily toggles twice as many 
branches as non-instrumented fuzzing, and identifies around 40% more 
distinctive test cases compared to statement coverage algorithms.

[This description was shamelessly stolen from the upstream homepage. 
Patches to make it read less than an advertisement are welcome!]

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Jakub Wilk