Use libFuzzer to fuzz test Python 3.6+ C extension modules.
clang 8 or later is required.
$ apt install clang
$ pip install pyfuzzer
Use the default mutator pyfuzzer.mutators.generic
when testing the
module hello_world
.
$ cd examples/hello_world
$ pyfuzzer run -l max_total_time=1 hello_world.c
<lots of libFuzzer output>
Print the function calls that found new code paths. This information is usually useful when writing unit tests.
$ pyfuzzer print_corpus
corpus/25409981b15b978c9fb5a5a2f4dab0c4b04e295f:
tell(b'') = 5
corpus/a8a4e6c9abfd3c6cba171579190702ddc1317df0:
tell(b'\xfd#') = b'Hello!'
corpus/80f87702ef9fbe4baf17095c79ff928b9fa1ea14:
tell(b'\x00') = True
corpus/be3d1b7df189727b2cecd6526aa8f24abbf6df10:
tell(b'\x00\xfd\x00') = 0
corpus/defd8787d638f271cd83362eafe7fdeed9fa4a8f:
tell(None) raises:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/erik/workspace/pyfuzzer/pyfuzzer/mutators/utils.py", line 35, in print_callable
res = obj(*args)
TypeError: expected bytes, NoneType found
See the hello_world for all files.
Similar to the previous example, but triggers a fatal error when
tell()
is called with a bytes object longer than 2 bytes as its
first argument.
$ cd examples/hello_world_fatal_error
$ pyfuzzer run hello_world.c
...
Fatal Python error: deallocating None
Current thread 0x00007f7ca99c2780 (most recent call first):
...
Print the function call that caused the crash. Just as expected, the first argument is clearly longer than 2 bytes.
$ pyfuzzer print_crashes
crash-1013ed88cd71fd14407b2bdbc17b95d7bc317c21:
tell(b'\n\xbf+') = None
See the hello_world_fatal_error for all files.
Use the custom mutator hello_world_mutator
when testing the module
hello_world
.
Testing with a custom mutator is often more efficient than using a generic one.
$ cd examples/hello_world_custom_mutator
$ pyfuzzer run -l max_total_time=1 -m hello_world_mutator.py hello_world.c
...
See the hello_world_custom_mutator for all files.
A mutator module uses data from libFuzzer to test a module. A
mutator module must implement the function setup(module)
, where
module
is the module under test. It shall return a mutator
instance that implements the methods test_one_input(self, data)
and test_one_input_print(self, data)
, where data
is the data
generated by libFuzzer (as a bytes object).
test_one_input(self, data)
performs the actual fuzz testing, while
test_one_input_print(self, data)
prints corpus and crashes.
A minimal mutator fuzz testing a CRC-32 algorithm could look like
below. It simply calls crc_32()
with data
as its only
argument.
from pyfuzzer.mutators.generic import print_callable
class Mutator:
def __init__(self, module):
self._module = module
def test_one_input(self, data):
return self._module.crc_32(data)
def test_one_input_print(self, data):
print_callable(self._module.crc_32, [data])
def setup(module):
return Mutator(module)
- Add support to fuzz test pure Python modules by generating C code using Cython.