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authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2020-10-12 20:46:23 -0400
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2020-10-17 09:38:47 +0700
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development/afl: Fix README.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ afl (security-oriented fuzzer)
American fuzzy lop is a security-oriented fuzzer that employs a
novel type of compile-time instrumentation and genetic algorithms to
automatically discover clean, interesting test cases that trigger new
-internal states in the targeted binary. This substantially improves the
-functional coverage for the fuzzed code. The compact synthesized corpora
-produced by the tool are also useful for seeding other, more labor-
-or resource-intensive testing regimes down the road.
+internal states in the targeted binary. This substantially improves
+the functional coverage for the fuzzed code. The compact synthesized
+corpora produced by the tool are also useful for seeding other, more
+labor- or resource-intensive testing regimes down the road.
To use afl with binary-only code (no source available), a custom qemu
wrapper is used (afl-qemu-trace). This does NOT require a system-wide
@@ -17,5 +17,5 @@ https://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-2.10.0.tar.xz
Save the file in the same directory as the afl.SlackBuild script.
-If binary-only support is not needed, don't download the qemu source. This
-will speed up the build quite a bit.
+If binary-only support is not needed, don't download the qemu
+source. This will speed up the build quite a bit.