Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
10-2024
Abstract
Communication protocols form the bedrock of our interconnected world, yet vulnerabilities within their implementations pose significant security threats. Recent developments have seen a surge in fuzzing-based research dedicated to uncovering these vulnerabilities within protocol implementations. However, there still lacks a systematic overview of protocol fuzzing for answering the essential questions such as what the unique challenges are, how existing works solve them, and so on. To bridge this gap, we conducted a comprehensive investigation of related works from both academia and industry. Our study includes a detailed summary of the specific challenges in protocol fuzzing and provides a systematic categorization and overview of existing research efforts. Furthermore, we explore and discuss potential future research directions in protocol fuzzing.
Keywords
fuzz testing, Protocol, security
Discipline
Information Security | Software Engineering
Research Areas
Cybersecurity
Publication
ACM Computing Surveys
Volume
57
Issue
2
First Page
1
Last Page
36
ISSN
0360-0300
Identifier
10.1145/3696788
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Citation
ZHANG, Xiaohan; ZHANG, Cen; LI, Xinghua; DU, Zhengjie; MAO, Bing; LI, Yeting; and LI, Pan.
A survey of protocol fuzzing. (2024). ACM Computing Surveys. 57, (2), 1-36.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/9782
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Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1145/3696788