SAND is a novel tool designed to enhance the efficiency of software fuzzing by decoupling sanitization from the fuzzing process.
Fuzzing, a widely used software testing technique, often suffers from overhead caused by sanitizer instrumentation.
SAND addresses this issue by separating the sanitization and fuzzing workflows, allowing for low-overhead and high-performance testing.
SAND operates by utilizing two separate binaries during its workflow:
By decoupling these processes, SAND reduces the runtime overhead typically associated with sanitizer-enabled fuzzing, while still ensuring comprehensive error detection.
sand Branch: Contains the reference implementation used in the paper’s evaluation, forked from AFL++ version 4.05c.upstream Branch: Represents efforts to port SAND to the latest version of AFL++.To use SAND:
afl-clang-fast.AFL_SAN_NO_INST=1 and AFL_USE_ASAN=1. AFL_NO_UI=1 AFL_SKIP_CPUFREQ=1 afl-fuzz -i <input_dir> -o <output_dir> -a <sanitized_binary> -- <native_binary> -f @@ SAND can be built using Docker for ease of reproduction:
docker build -t sand . Alternatively, users can follow instructions in the original AFL++ README if Docker is unavailable.
For evaluation reproduction, detailed instructions are provided in the evaluation folder of the repository.
SAND’s approach is simple and adaptable to other fuzzers. For example, it has been applied to Fuzzilli, demonstrating its versatility. SAND represents a significant improvement in fuzzing efficiency by decoupling sanitization from fuzzing.
Its low-overhead design ensures faster execution while maintaining robust error detection capabilities, making it a valuable tool for software testing and security research.
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