zzuf(1) General Commands Manual zzuf(1) NAME zzuf - multiple purpose fuzzer SYNOPSIS zzuf [-aAcdimnqSvx] [-s seed|-s start:stop] [-r ratio|-r min:max] [-f fuzzing] [-D delay] [-j jobs] [-C crashes] [-B bytes] [-t seconds] [-T sec- onds] [-U seconds] [-M mebibytes] [-b ranges] [-p ports] [-P protect] [-R refuse] [-l list] [-I include] [-E exclude] [PROGRAM [ARGS]...] zzuf -h | --help zzuf -V | --version DESCRIPTION zzuf is a transparent application input fuzzer. It works by intercepting file and network operations and changing random bits in the program's in- put. zzuf's behaviour is deterministic, making it easy to reproduce bugs. USAGE zzuf will run an application specified on its command line, one or several times, with optional arguments, and will report the application's relevant behaviour on the standard error channel, eg: zzuf cat /dev/zero Flags found after the application name are considered arguments for the ap- plication, not for zzuf. For instance, -v below is an argument for cat: zzuf -B 1000 cat -v /dev/zero When no program is specified, zzuf simply fuzzes the standard input, as if the cat utility had been called: zzuf < /dev/zero OPTIONS -a, --allow=list Only fuzz network input for IPs in list, a comma-separated list of IP addresses. If the list starts with !, the flag meaning is re- versed and all addresses are fuzzed except the ones in the list. As of now, this flag only understands INET (IPv4) addresses. This option requires network fuzzing to be activated using -n. -A, --autoinc Increment random seed each time a new file is opened. This is only required if one instance of the application is expected to open the same file several times and you want to test a different seed each time. -b, --bytes=ranges Restrict fuzzing to bytes whose offsets in the file are within ranges. Range values start at zero and are inclusive. Use dashes between range values and commas between ranges. If the right-hand part of a range is ommited, it means end of file. For instance, to restrict fuzzing to bytes 0, 3, 4, 5 and all bytes after offset 31, use `-b0,3-5,31-'. This option is useful to preserve file headers or corrupt only a specific portion of a file. -B, --max-bytes=n Automatically stop after n bytes have been output. This either terminates child processes that output more than n bytes on the standard output and standard error channels, or stop reading from standard input if no program is being fuzzed. This is useful to detect infinite loops. See also the -U and -T flags. -c, --cmdline Only fuzz files whose name is specified in the target application's command line. This is mostly a shortcut to avoid specifying twice the argument: zzuf -c cat file.txt has the same effect as zzuf -I '^file\.txt$' cat file.txt See the -I flag for more information on restricting fuzzing to spe- cific files. -C, --max-crashes=n Stop forking when at least n children have crashed. The default value is 1, meaning zzuf will stop as soon as one child has crashed. A value of 0 tells zzuf to never stop. Note that zzuf will not kill any remaining children once n is reached. To ensure that processes do not last forever, see the -U flag. A process is considered to have crashed if any signal (such as, but not limited to, SIGSEGV) caused it to exit. If the -x flag is used, this will also include processes that exit with a non-zero status. This option is only relevant if the -s flag is used with a range ar- gument. See also the -t flag. -d, --debug Activate the display of debug messages. Can be specified multiple times for increased verbosity. -D, --delay=delay Do not launch more than one process every delay seconds. This option should be used together with -j to avoid fork bombs. -E, --exclude=regex Do not fuzz files whose name matches the regex regular expression. This option supersedes anything that is specified by the -I flag. Use this for instance if you are unsure of what files your applica- tion is going to read and do not want it to fuzz files in the /etc directory. Multiple -E flags can be specified, in which case files matching any one of the regular expressions will be ignored. -f, --fuzzing=mode Select how the input is fuzzed. Valid values for mode are: xor randomly set and unset bits set only set bits unset only unset bits The default value for mode is xor. -j, --jobs=jobs Specify the number of simultaneous children that can be run. By de- fault, zzuf only launches one process at a time. This option is only relevant if the -s flag is used with a range ar- gument. See also the -D flag. -i, --stdin Fuzz the application's standard input. By default zzuf only fuzzes files. -I, --include=regex Only fuzz files whose name matches the regex regular expression. Use this for instance if your application reads configuration files at startup and you only want specific files to be fuzzed. Multiple -I flags can be specified, in which case files matching any one of the regular expressions will be fuzzed. See also the -c flag. -l, --list=list Cherry-pick the list of file descriptors that get fuzzed. The Nth descriptor will really be fuzzed only if N is in list. Values start at 1 and ranges are inclusive. Use dashes between val- ues and commas between ranges. If the right-hand part of a range is ommited, it means all subsequent file descriptors. For instance, to restrict fuzzing to the first opened descriptor and all descriptors starting from the 10th, use `-l1,10-'. Note that this option only affects file descriptors that would oth- erwise be fuzzed. Even if 10 write-only descriptors are opened at the beginning of the program, only the next descriptor with a read flag will be the first one considered by the -l flag. -m, --md5 Instead of displaying the program's standard output, just print its MD5 digest to zzuf's standard output. The standard error channel is left untouched. -M, --max-memory=mebibytes Specify the maximum amount of memory, in mebibytes (1 MiB = 1,048,576 bytes), that children are allowed to allocate. This is useful to detect infinite loops that eat up a lot of memory. The value should be set reasonably high so as not to interfer with normal program operation. By default, it is set to 1024 MiB in order to avoid accidental excessive swapping. To disable the limitation, set the maximum memory usage to -1 instead. zzuf uses the setrlimit() call to set memory usage limitations and relies on the operating system's ability to enforce such limita- tions. -n, --network Fuzz the application's network input. By default zzuf only fuzzes files. Only INET (IPv4) and INET6 (IPv6) connections are fuzzed. Other pro- tocol families are not yet supported. -p, --ports=ranges Only fuzz network ports that are in ranges. By default zzuf fuzzes all ports. The port considered is the listening port if the socket is listening and the destination port if the socket is connecting, because most of the time the source port cannot be predicted. Range values start at zero and are inclusive. Use dashes between range values and commas between ranges. If the right-hand part of a range is ommited, it means end of file. For instance, to restrict fuzzing to the HTTP and HTTPS ports and to all unprivileged ports, use `-p80,443,1024-'. This option requires network fuzzing to be activated using -n. -P, --protect=list Protect a list of characters so that if they appear in input data that would normally be fuzzed, they are left unmodified instead. Characters in list can be expressed verbatim or through escape se- quences. The sequences interpreted by zzuf are: \n new line \r return \t tabulation \NNN the byte whose octal value is NNN \xNN the byte whose hexadecimal value is NN \\ backslash (`\') You can use `-' to specify ranges. For instance, to protect all bytes from `\001' to `/', use `-P '\001-/''. The statistical outcome of this option should not be overlooked: if characters are protected, the effect of the `-r' flag will vary de- pending on the data being fuzzed. For instance, asking to fuzz 1% of input bits (-r0.01) and to protect lowercase characters (-P a-z) will result in an actual average fuzzing ratio of 0.9% with truly random data, 0.3% with random ASCII data and 0.2% with standard Eng- lish text. See also the -R flag. -q, --quiet Hide the output of the fuzzed application. This is useful if the ap- plication is very verbose but only its exit code or signaled status is really useful to you. -r, --ratio=ratio -r, --ratio=min:max Specify the proportion of bits that will be randomly fuzzed. A value of 0 will not fuzz anything. A value of 0.05 will fuzz 5% of the open files' bits. A value of 1.0 or more will fuzz all the bytes, theoretically making the input files undiscernible from random data. The default fuzzing ratio is 0.004 (fuzz 0.4% of the files' bits). A range can also be specified. When doing so, zzuf will pick ratio values from the interval. The choice is deterministic and only de- pends on the interval bounds and the current seed. -R, --refuse=list Refuse a list of characters by not fuzzing bytes that would other- wise be changed to a character that is in list. This does not pre- vent characters from appearing in the output if the original byte was already in list. See the -P option for a description of list. -s, --seed=seed -s, --seed=start:stop Specify the random seed to use for fuzzing, or a range of random seeds. Running zzuf twice with the same random seed will fuzz the files exactly the same way, even with a different target applica- tion. The purpose of this is to use simple utilities such as cat or cp to generate a file that causes the target application to crash. If a range is specified, zzuf will run the application several times, each time with a different seed, and report the behaviour of each run. If the `:' character is used but the second part of the range is omitted, zzuf will increment the seed value indefinitely. -S, --signal Prevent children from installing signal handlers for signals that usually cause coredumps. These signals are SIGABRT, SIGFPE, SIGILL, SIGQUIT, SIGSEGV, SIGTRAP and, if available on the running platform, SIGSYS, SIGEMT, SIGBUS, SIGXCPU and SIGXFSZ. Instead of calling the signal handler, the application will simply crash. If you do not want core dumps, you should set appropriate limits with the limit coredumpsize command. See your shell's documentation on how to set such limits. -t, --max-time=n Stop forking after n seconds. By default, zzuf runs until the end of the seed range is reached. Note that zzuf will not kill any remaining children once n is reached. To ensure that processes do not last forever, see the -U flag. This option is only relevant if the -s flag is used with a range ar- gument. See also the -C flag. -T, --max-cputime=n Automatically terminate child processes that use more than n seconds of CPU time. zzuf uses the setrlimit() call to set CPU usage limitations and re- lies on the operating system's ability to enforce such limitations. If the system sends SIGXCPU signals and the application catches that signal, it will receive a SIGKILL signal after 5 seconds. This is more accurate than -U because the behaviour should be inde- pendent from the system load, but it does not detect processes stuck into infinite select() calls because they use very little CPU time. See also the -B and -U flags. -U, --max-usertime=n Automatically terminate child processes that run for more than n seconds. This is useful to detect infinite loops or processes stuck in other situations. See also the -B and -T flags. -v, --verbose Print information during the run, such as the current seed, what processes get run, their exit status, etc. -x, --check-exit Report processes that exit with a non-zero status. By default only processes that crash due to a signal are reported. -h, --help Display a short help message and exit. -V, --version Output version information and exit. DIAGNOSTICS Exit status is zero if no child process crashed. If one or several children crashed, zzuf exits with status 1. EXAMPLES Fuzz the input of the cat program using default settings: zzuf cat /etc/motd Fuzz 1% of the input bits of the cat program using seed 94324: zzuf -s94324 -r0.01 cat /etc/motd Fuzz the input of the cat program but do not fuzz newline characters and prevent non-ASCII characters from appearing in the output: zzuf -P '\n' -R '\x00-\x1f\x7f-\xff' cat /etc/motd Fuzz the input of the convert program, using file foo.jpeg as the original input and excluding .xml files from fuzzing (because convert will also open its own XML configuration files and we do not want zzuf to fuzz them): zzuf -E '\.xml$' convert foo.jpeg -format tga /dev/null Fuzz the input of VLC, using file movie.avi as the original input and re- stricting fuzzing to filenames that appear on the command line (-c), then generate fuzzy-movie.avi which is a file that can be read by VLC to repro- duce the same behaviour without using zzuf: zzuf -c -s87423 -r0.01 vlc movie.avi zzuf -c -s87423 -r0.01 <movie.avi >fuzzy-movie.avi vlc fuzzy-movie.avi Fuzz between 0.1% and 2% of MPlayer's input bits (-r0.001:0.02) with seeds 0 to 9999 (-s0:10000), preserving the AVI 4-byte header by restricting fuzzing to offsets after 4 (-b4-), disabling its standard output messages (-q), launching up to five simultaneous child processes (-j5) but waiting at least half a second between launches (-D0.5), killing MPlayer if it takes more than one minute to read the file (-T60) and disabling its SIGSEGV signal handler (-S): zzuf -c -r0.001:0.02 -s0:10000 -b4- -q -j5 -D0.5 -T60 -S \ mplayer -benchmark -vo null -fps 1000 movie.avi A more advanced VLC fuzzing example, stopping only at the first crash: zzuf -j4 -vqc -r0.000001:0.01 -s0: vlc -v -I dummy movie.avi \ --sout '#transcode{acodec=s16l,vcodec=I420}:dummy' vlc:quit Create an HTML-like file that loads 200 times the same hello.jpg image and open it in Firefoxtm in auto-increment mode (-A): seq -f '<img src="hello.jpg#%g">' 1 200 > hello.html (or: jot -w '<img src="hello.jpg#%d">' 200 1 > hello.html) zzuf -A -I 'hello[.]jpg' -r0.001 firefox hello.html Run a simple HTTP redirector on the local host using socat and corrupt each network connection (-n) in a different way (-A) after one megabyte of data was received on it (-b1000000-): zzuf -n -A -b1000000- \ socat TCP4-LISTEN:8080,reuseaddr,fork TCP4:192.168.1.42:80 Browse the intarweb (-n) using Firefoxtm without fuzzing local files (-E.) or non-HTTP connections (-p80,8010,8080), preserving the beginning of the data sent with each HTTP response (-b4000-) and using another seed on each connection (-A): zzuf -r 0.0001 -n -E. -p80,8010,8080 -b4000- -A firefox RESTRICTIONS Due to zzuf using shared object preloading (LD_PRELOAD, _RLD_LIST, DYLD_IN- SERT_LIBRARIES, etc.) to run its child processes, it will fail in the pres- ence of any mechanism that disables preloading. For instance setuid root binaries will not be fuzzed when run as an unprivileged user. For the same reasons, zzuf will also not work with statically linked bina- ries. Bear this in mind when using zzuf on the OpenBSD platform, where cat, cp and dd are static binaries. Though best efforts are made, identical behaviour for different versions of zzuf is not guaranteed. The reproducibility for subsequent calls on differ- ent operating systems and with different target programs is only guaranteed when the same version of zzuf is being used. BUGS zzuf probably does not behave correctly with 64-bit offsets. It is not yet possible to insert or drop bytes from the input, to fuzz ac- cording to the file format, to swap bytes, etc. More advanced fuzzing meth- ods are planned. As of now, zzuf does not really support multithreaded applications. The be- haviour with multithreaded applications where more than one thread does file descriptor operations is undefined. HISTORY zzuf started its life in 2002 as the streamfucker tool, a small multimedia stream corrupter used to find bugs in the VLC media player. SEE ALSO libzzuf(3), zzcat(1) AUTHOR Copyright (C) 2002-2010 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>. zzuf and this manual page are free software. They come without any war- ranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Pub- lic License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details. zzuf's webpage can be found at http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/zzuf. An overview of the architecture and inner works is at http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/zzuf/in- ternals. zzuf 0.13 2010-01-31 zzuf(1)
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