Publication detail

Dfuzzer: A D-Bus Service Fuzzing Tool

MARHEFKA, M. MÜLLER, P.

Original Title

Dfuzzer: A D-Bus Service Fuzzing Tool

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

We present Dfuzzer, a fully automated tool for fuzz testing programs communicating via D-Bus. D-Bus is the prevalent modern mechanism for an inter-process communication in the GNU/Linux ecosystem. Using D-Bus introspection, Dfuzzer is able to acquire the structure of the parameters expected by the target program. It can then generate ballast data respecting this structure, so the target program starts using such data incorrectly if it does not carefully validate it. We have found numerous bugs in various parts of the GNU/Linux operating system, including GNOME Shell and systemd.

Keywords

D-Bus fuzzer fuzz testing automated testing pseudo-random data generation IPC

Authors

MARHEFKA, M.; MÜLLER, P.

RIV year

2014

Released

31. 3. 2014

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

Location

Cleveland

ISBN

978-0-7695-5194-4

Book

Proceedings of IEEE Seventh International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshopsn

Pages from

383

Pages to

389

Pages count

7

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT111536,
  author="Matúš {Marhefka} and Petr {Müller}",
  title="Dfuzzer: A D-Bus Service Fuzzing Tool",
  booktitle="Proceedings of IEEE Seventh International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshopsn",
  year="2014",
  pages="383--389",
  publisher="IEEE Computer Society",
  address="Cleveland",
  doi="10.1109/ICSTW.2014.51",
  isbn="978-0-7695-5194-4"
}