pyfuzzer 0.9.0

Fuzz test Python modules with libFuzzer.

About

Use libFuzzer to fuzz test Python 3.6+ C extension modules.

Ideas

• Use type annotations for less type errors in generic mutator.
• Add support to fuzz test pure Python modules by generating C code from them using Cython.
• Add a verbose option?
• Print corpus after run?

Installation

clang 8 or later is required.

$ apt install clang
$ pip install pyfuzzer

Example Usage

Hello world

Use the default mutator pyfuzzer.mutators.random when testing the module hello_world.

$ cd examples/hello_world
$ pyfuzzer run hello_world hello_world.c
...

Print the function calls that found new code paths. This information is usually good input when writing unit tests.

$ pyfuzzer print_corpus
tell(b'') = 5
tell(b'@') = True
tell(None) raises:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/erik/workspace/pyfuzzer/pyfuzzer/mutators/utils.py", line 18, in print_function
    res = func(*args)
TypeError: expected bytes, NoneType found
tell(b'@\x01\x00') = 0
tell(b'#@') = b'Hello!'

See the hello_world for full output.

Hello world fatal error

Similar to the previous example, but triggers a fatal error in one branch in the code.

$ cd examples/hello_world_fatal_error
$ pyfuzzer run hello_world hello_world.c
...
Fatal Python error: deallocating None

Current thread 0x00007f7ca99c2780 (most recent call first):
...

Print the function call that caused the crash.

$ pyfuzzer print_crashes
tell(b'..............................................') = None

See the hello_world_fatal_error for full output.

Custom mutator

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 -m hello_world_mutator.py hello_world hello_world.c
...

See the hello_world_custom_mutator for full output.

Mutators

A Mutator uses data from libFuzzer to test a module. A mutator must implement the function test_one_input(module, data), where module is the module under test and data is the data generated by libFuzzer (as a bytes object).

A minimal mutator fuzz testing a CRC-32 algorithm could look like below. It simply calls crc_32() with data as its only argument.

import traceback
from .pyfuzzer.mutators.utils import print_function

def test_one_input(module, data):
    module.crc_32(data)

def test_one_input_print(module, data):
     print_function(module.crc_32, [data])