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Fuzzing between the lines in popular barcode software

By Artur Cygan Fuzzing—one of the most successful techniques for finding security bugs, consistently featured in articles and industry conferences—has become so popular that you may think most impo…

Fuzzing—one of the most successful techniques for finding security bugs, consistently featured in articles and industry conferences—has become so popular that you may think most important software has already been extensively fuzzed. If you paid attention to the ZBar instrumentation code, we mentioned in the comment that its tests are disabled due to sanitizer failure. The postInstall phase is not strictly required but ensures that the harness has llvm-symbolizer available to show the source locations, which helps in diagnosing the root cause.

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