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https://github.com/centic9/configuration-fuzz

Use Jazzer to perform fuzzy testing of Apache Commons Configuration
https://github.com/centic9/configuration-fuzz

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Use Jazzer to perform fuzzy testing of Apache Commons Configuration

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This is a small project for fuzzing [Apache Commons Configuration](https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/)
with the [jazzer](https://github.com/CodeIntelligenceTesting/jazzer) fuzzing tool.

See [Fuzzing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzing) for a general description
of the theory behind fuzzy testing.

Because Java uses a runtime environment which does not crash on invalid actions of an
application (unless native code is invoked), Fuzzing of Java-based applications
focuses on the following:

* verify if only expected exceptions are thrown
* verify any JNI or native code calls
* find cases of unbounded memory allocations

Apache Commons Configuration uses JNI for at least ZStd, so the fuzzing target
tries to trigger this and also any other unexpected exceptions and
unbounded memory allocations.

# How to fuzz

Build the fuzzing target:

./gradlew shadowJar

Create an empty corpus directory

mkdir corpus

Because the fuzz-targets use a `FuzzedDataProvider` it is not easily
possible to provide a "seed" corpus, but Jazzer will come up with
useful corpus-files automatically anyway.

Download Jazzer from the [releases page](https://github.com/CodeIntelligenceTesting/jazzer/releases),
choose the latest version and select the file `jazzer--.tar.gz`

Unpack the archive:

tar xzf jazzer-*.tar.gz

Invoke the fuzzing for `ListDelimiterHandlerFuzz`:

./jazzer --cp=build/libs/configuration-fuzz-all.jar --instrumentation_includes=org.apache.commons.** --target_class=org.dstadler.configuration.fuzz.ListDelimiterHandlerFuzz -rss_limit_mb=4096 corpus

In this mode Jazzer will stop whenever it detects an unexpected exception
or crashes.

You can use `--keep_going=10` to report a given number of exceptions before stopping.

See `./jazzer` for options which can control details of how Jazzer operates.

# License

Copyright 2024 Dominik Stadler

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at [http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.