[sudo-blog] Fuzz testing sudo

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at sudo.ws
Tue Mar 30 06:21:19 MDT 2021


Version 1.9.6 of sudo was released recently. This is primarily a
bug fix release with almost no user visible changes. One of the
changes visible to developers is that support for fuzz testing was
added. What is fuzz testing? According to the Wikipedia: "Fuzzing
or fuzz testing is an automated software testing technique that
involves providing invalid, unexpected, or random data as inputs
to a computer program. The program is then monitored for exceptions
such as crashes, failing built-in code assertions, or potential
memory leaks." ...

Read the full blog post at
https://blog.sudo.ws/posts/2021/03/fuzz-testing-sudo/


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