SyzDirect: Directed Greybox Fuzzing for Linux Kernel

著者: Xin Tan, Yuan Zhang, Jiadong Lu, Xin Xiong, Zhuang Liu, Min Yang - ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2023 被引用: 30

Bug reports and patch commits are dramatically increasing for OS kernels, incentivizing a critical need for kernel-level bug reproduction and patch testing. Directed greybox fuzzing (DGF), aiming to stress-test a specific part of code, is a promising approach for bug reproduction and patch testing. However, the existing DGF methods exclusively target user-space applications, presenting intrinsic limitations in handling OS kernels. In particular, these methods cannot pinpoint the appropriate system calls and the needed syscall parameter values to reach the target location,resulting in low efficiency and waste of resources.