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Fuzzing between the lines in popular barcode software

By Artur Cygan Fuzzing—one of the most successful techniques for finding security bugs, consistently featured in articles and industry conferences—has become so popular that you may think most important software has already been extensively fuzzed. But that’s not always the case. In this blog post, we show how we fuzzed the ZBar barcode scanning library and why, despite our limited time budget, we found serious bugs: an out-of-bounds stack buffer write that can lead to arbitrary code execution w...

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