diff options
| author | Andrea Fioraldi <andreafioraldi@gmail.com> | 2020-02-08 11:28:59 +0100 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Andrea Fioraldi <andreafioraldi@gmail.com> | 2020-02-08 11:28:59 +0100 |
| commit | 96b378d5ba9b057bd9a78f37b7817e335242c4a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 60e79acfc4fa907d5bcac882a36bf46032c84050 /docs | |
| parent | ff0617f41ee3fe14afbaaced4b1075c48e8798ec (diff) | |
| download | afl++-96b378d5ba9b057bd9a78f37b7817e335242c4a5.tar.gz | |
markdown todo & changelog
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ChangeLog.md (renamed from docs/ChangeLog) | 960 |
1 files changed, 240 insertions, 720 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ChangeLog b/docs/ChangeLog.md index 997db96c..ad0b9e88 100644 --- a/docs/ChangeLog +++ b/docs/ChangeLog.md @@ -1,21 +1,15 @@ -========= -ChangeLog -========= +# ChangeLog This is the list of all noteworthy changes made in every public release of the tool. See README for the general instruction manual. ----------------- -Staying informed ----------------- +## Staying informed Want to stay in the loop on major new features? Join our mailing list by sending a mail to <afl-users+subscribe@googlegroups.com>. --------------------------- -Version ++2.60d (develop): --------------------------- +### Version ++2.60d (develop): - use -march=native if available - afl-fuzz: @@ -43,9 +37,7 @@ Version ++2.60d (develop): - libdislocator: AFL_ALIGNED_ALLOC to force size alignment to max_align_t --------------------------- -Version ++2.60c (release): --------------------------- +### Version ++2.60c (release): - fixed a critical bug in afl-tmin that was introduced during ++2.53d - added test cases for afl-cmin and afl-tmin to test/test.sh @@ -57,9 +49,7 @@ Version ++2.60c (release): - we now set QEMU_SET_ENV from AFL_PRELOAD when qemu_mode is used --------------------------- -Version ++2.59c (release): --------------------------- +### Version ++2.59c (release): - qbdi_mode: fuzz android native libraries via QBDI framework - unicorn_mode: switched to the new unicornafl, thanks domenukk @@ -91,9 +81,7 @@ Version ++2.59c (release): - removed unnecessary warnings --------------------------- -Version ++2.58c (release): --------------------------- +### Version ++2.58c (release): - reverted patch to not unlink and recreate the input file, it resulted in performance loss of ~10% @@ -103,9 +91,7 @@ Version ++2.58c (release): - gcc_plugin tests added to testing framework --------------------------------- -Version ++2.54d-2.57c (release): --------------------------------- +### Version ++2.54d-2.57c (release): - we jump to 2.57 instead of 2.55 to catch up with Google's versioning - persistent mode for QEMU (see qemu_mode/README.md) @@ -135,9 +121,7 @@ Version ++2.54d-2.57c (release): - laf-intel in llvm_mode now also handles floating point comparisons --------------------------- -Version ++2.54c (release): --------------------------- +### Version ++2.54c (release): - big code refactoring: * all includes are now in include/ @@ -165,9 +149,7 @@ Version ++2.54c (release): - immediates-only instrumentation for CompareCoverage --------------------------- -Version ++2.53c (release): --------------------------- +### Version ++2.53c (release): - README is now README.md - imported the few minor changes from the 2.53b release @@ -209,9 +191,7 @@ Version ++2.53c (release): that is longer but in line with other llvm specific env vars ------------------------------ -Version ++2.52c (2019-06-05): ------------------------------ +### Version ++2.52c (2019-06-05): - Applied community patches. See docs/PATCHES for the full list. LLVM and Qemu modes are now faster. @@ -228,9 +208,7 @@ Version ++2.52c (2019-06-05): https://github.com/andreafioraldi/afl and with community patches added ---------------------------- -Version 2.52b (2017-11-04): ---------------------------- +### Version 2.52b (2017-11-04): - Upgraded QEMU patches from 2.3.0 to 2.10.0. Required troubleshooting several weird issues. All the legwork done by Andrew Griffiths. @@ -249,16 +227,12 @@ Version 2.52b (2017-11-04): - Added support for parameters in triage_crashes.sh. Patch by Adam of DC949. ---------------------------- -Version 2.51b (2017-08-30): ---------------------------- +### Version 2.51b (2017-08-30): - Made afl-tmin call setsid to prevent glibc traceback junk from showing up on the terminal in some distros. Suggested by Jakub Wilk. ---------------------------- -Version 2.50b (2017-08-19): ---------------------------- +### Version 2.50b (2017-08-19): - Fixed an interesting timing corner case spotted by Jakub Wilk. @@ -271,17 +245,13 @@ Version 2.50b (2017-08-19): - In-place resume now preserves .synced. Suggested by Jakub Wilk. ---------------------------- -Version 2.49b (2017-07-18): ---------------------------- +### Version 2.49b (2017-07-18): - Added AFL_TMIN_EXACT to allow path constraint for crash minimization. - Added dates for releases (retroactively for all of 2017). ---------------------------- -Version 2.48b (2017-07-17): ---------------------------- +### Version 2.48b (2017-07-17): - Added AFL_ALLOW_TMP to permit some scripts to run in /tmp. @@ -289,15 +259,11 @@ Version 2.48b (2017-07-17): - Made it possible to point -o and -f to the same file in afl-tmin. ---------------------------- -Version 2.47b (2017-07-14): ---------------------------- +### Version 2.47b (2017-07-14): - Fixed cwd handling in afl-tmin. Spotted by Jakub Wilk. ---------------------------- -Version 2.46b (2017-07-10): ---------------------------- +### Version 2.46b (2017-07-10): - libdislocator now supports AFL_LD_NO_CALLOC_OVER for folks who do not want to abort on calloc() overflows. @@ -306,9 +272,7 @@ Version 2.46b (2017-07-10): - Added a small JSON dictionary, inspired on a dictionary done by Jakub Wilk. ---------------------------- -Version 2.45b (2017-07-04): ---------------------------- +### Version 2.45b (2017-07-04): - Added strstr, strcasestr support to libtokencap. Contributed by Daniel Hodson. @@ -317,9 +281,7 @@ Version 2.45b (2017-07-04): - There are definitely no bugs in afl-showmap -c now. ---------------------------- -Version 2.44b (2017-06-28): ---------------------------- +### Version 2.44b (2017-06-28): - Added a visual indicator of ASAN / MSAN mode when compiling. Requested by Jakub Wilk. @@ -332,31 +294,23 @@ Version 2.44b (2017-06-28): - Added a note about allocator_may_return_null=1 not always working with ASAN. Spotted by Jakub Wilk. ---------------------------- -Version 2.43b (2017-06-16): ---------------------------- +### Version 2.43b (2017-06-16): - Added AFL_NO_ARITH to aid in the fuzzing of text-based formats. Requested by Jakub Wilk. ---------------------------- -Version 2.42b (2017-06-02): ---------------------------- +### Version 2.42b (2017-06-02): - Renamed the R() macro to avoid a problem with llvm_mode in the latest versions of LLVM. Fix suggested by Christian Holler. ---------------------------- -Version 2.41b (2017-04-12): ---------------------------- +### Version 2.41b (2017-04-12): - Addressed a major user complaint related to timeout detection. Timing out inputs are now binned as "hangs" only if they exceed a far more generous time limit than the one used to reject slow paths. ---------------------------- -Version 2.40b (2017-04-02): ---------------------------- +### Version 2.40b (2017-04-02): - Fixed a minor oversight in the insertion strategy for dictionary words. Spotted by Andrzej Jackowski. @@ -365,9 +319,7 @@ Version 2.40b (2017-04-02): - Adjusted color rules for "is it done yet?" indicators. ---------------------------- -Version 2.39b (2017-02-02): ---------------------------- +### Version 2.39b (2017-02-02): - Improved error reporting in afl-cmin. Suggested by floyd. @@ -375,16 +327,12 @@ Version 2.39b (2017-02-02): - Added a mention of afl-monitor. ---------------------------- -Version 2.38b (2017-01-22): ---------------------------- +### Version 2.38b (2017-01-22): - Added -mllvm -sanitizer-coverage-block-threshold=0 to trace-pc-guard mode, as suggested by Kostya Serebryany. ---------------------------- -Version 2.37b (2017-01-22): ---------------------------- +### Version 2.37b (2017-01-22): - Fixed a typo. Spotted by Jakub Wilk. @@ -398,9 +346,7 @@ Version 2.37b (2017-01-22): Note that for some reason, this mode doesn't perform as well as "vanilla" afl-clang-fast / afl-clang. ---------------------------- -Version 2.36b (2017-01-14): ---------------------------- +### Version 2.36b (2017-01-14): - Fixed a cosmetic bad free() bug when aborting -S sessions. Spotted by Johannes S. @@ -426,34 +372,26 @@ Version 2.36b (2017-01-14): Yep, I know I have a backlog on several other feature requests. Stay tuned! --------------- -Version 2.35b: --------------- +### Version 2.35b: - Fixed a minor cmdline reporting glitch, spotted by Leo Barnes. - Fixed a silly bug in libdislocator. Spotted by Johannes Schultz. --------------- -Version 2.34b: --------------- +### Version 2.34b: - Added a note about afl-tmin to technical_details.txt. - Added support for AFL_NO_UI, as suggested by Leo Barnes. --------------- -Version 2.33b: --------------- +### Version 2.33b: - Added code to strip -Wl,-z,defs and -Wl,--no-undefined for afl-clang-fast, since they interfere with -shared. Spotted and diagnosed by Toby Hutton. - Added some fuzzing tips for Android. --------------- -Version 2.32b: --------------- +### Version 2.32b: - Added a check for AFL_HARDEN combined with AFL_USE_*SAN. Suggested by Hanno Boeck. @@ -461,9 +399,7 @@ Version 2.32b: - Made several other cosmetic adjustments to cycle timing in the wake of the big tweak made in 2.31b. --------------- -Version 2.31b: --------------- +### Version 2.31b: - Changed havoc cycle counts for a marked performance boost, especially with -S / -d. See the discussion of FidgetyAFL in: @@ -475,9 +411,7 @@ Version 2.31b: more improvements may follow as I do more experiments and get more definitive data. --------------- -Version 2.30b: --------------- +### Version 2.30b: - Made minor improvements to persistent mode to avoid the remote possibility of "no instrumentation detected" issues with very low @@ -489,17 +423,13 @@ Version 2.30b: - Made persistent mode bitmaps a bit more consistent and adjusted the way this is shown in the UI, especially in persistent mode. --------------- -Version 2.29b: --------------- +### Version 2.29b: - Made a minor #include fix to llvm_mode. Suggested by Jonathan Metzman. - Made cosmetic updates to the docs. --------------- -Version 2.28b: --------------- +### Version 2.28b: - Added "life pro tips" to docs/. @@ -509,9 +439,7 @@ Version 2.28b: - Added an important safety tip. --------------- -Version 2.27b: --------------- +### Version 2.27b: - Added libtokencap, a simple feature to intercept strcmp / memcmp and generate dictionary entries that can help extend coverage. @@ -520,9 +448,7 @@ Version 2.27b: - The demo in examples/instrumented_cmp is no more. --------------- -Version 2.26b: --------------- +### Version 2.26b: - Made a fix for libdislocator.so to compile on MacOS X. @@ -530,24 +456,18 @@ Version 2.26b: - Renamed AFL_LD_PRELOAD to AFL_PRELOAD. --------------- -Version 2.25b: --------------- +### Version 2.25b: - Made some cosmetic updates to libdislocator.so, renamed one env variable. --------------- -Version 2.24b: --------------- +### Version 2.24b: - Added libdislocator.so, an experimental, abusive allocator. Try it out with AFL_LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libdislocator.so when running afl-fuzz. --------------- -Version 2.23b: --------------- +### Version 2.23b: - Improved the stability metric for persistent mode binaries. Problem spotted by Kurt Roeckx. @@ -555,9 +475,7 @@ Version 2.23b: - Made a related improvement that may bring the metric to 100% for those targets. --------------- -Version 2.22b: --------------- +### Version 2.22b: - Mentioned the potential conflicts between MSAN / ASAN and FORTIFY_SOURCE. There is no automated check for this, since some distros may implicitly @@ -568,18 +486,14 @@ Version 2.22b: - Made a change to the handling of ./afl-clang-fast -v. Spotted by Jan Kneschke. --------------- -Version 2.21b: --------------- +### Version 2.21b: - Added some crash reporting notes for Solaris in docs/INSTALL, as investigated by Martin Carpenter. - Fixed a minor UI mix-up with havoc strategy stats. --------------- -Version 2.20b: --------------- +### Version 2.20b: - Revamped the handling of variable paths, replacing path count with a "stability" score to give users a much better signal. Based on the @@ -593,24 +507,18 @@ Version 2.20b: - Added experimental support for parallelizing -M. --------------- -Version 2.19b: --------------- +### Version 2.19b: - Made a fix to make sure that auto CPU binding happens at non-overlapping times. --------------- -Version 2.18b: --------------- +### Version 2.18b: - Made several performance improvements to has_new_bits() and classify_counts(). This should offer a robust performance bump with fast targets. --------------- -Version 2.17b: --------------- +### Version 2.17b: - Killed the error-prone and manual -Z option. On Linux, AFL will now automatically bind to the first free core (or complain if there are no @@ -618,9 +526,7 @@ Version 2.17b: - Made some doc updates along these lines. --------------- -Version 2.16b: --------------- +### Version 2.16b: - Improved support for older versions of clang (hopefully without breaking anything). @@ -628,43 +534,33 @@ Version 2.16b: - Moved version data from Makefile to config.h. Suggested by Jonathan Metzman. --------------- -Version 2.15b: --------------- +### Version 2.15b: - Added a README section on looking for non-crashing bugs. - Added license data to several boring files. Contributed by Jonathan Metzman. --------------- -Version 2.14b: --------------- +### Version 2.14b: - Added FUZZING_BUILD_MODE_UNSAFE_FOR_PRODUCTION as a macro defined when compiling with afl-gcc and friends. Suggested by Kostya Serebryany. - Refreshed some of the non-x86 docs. --------------- -Version 2.13b: --------------- +### Version 2.13b: - Fixed a spurious build test error with trace-pc and llvm_mode/Makefile. Spotted by Markus Teufelberger. - Fixed a cosmetic issue with afl-whatsup. Spotted by Brandon Perry. --------------- -Version 2.12b: --------------- +### Version 2.12b: - Fixed a minor issue in afl-tmin that can make alphabet minimization less efficient during passes > 1. Spotted by Daniel Binderman. --------------- -Version 2.11b: --------------- +### Version 2.11b: - Fixed a minor typo in instrumented_cmp, spotted by Hanno Eissfeldt. @@ -675,32 +571,24 @@ Version 2.11b: - Fixed a typo in post_library_png.so.c in examples/. Spotted by Kostya Serebryany. --------------- -Version 2.10b: --------------- +### Version 2.10b: - Fixed a minor core counting glitch, reported by Tyler Nighswander. --------------- -Version 2.09b: --------------- +### Version 2.09b: - Made several documentation updates. - Added some visual indicators to promote and simplify the use of -Z. --------------- -Version 2.08b: --------------- +### Version 2.08b: - Added explicit support for -m32 and -m64 for llvm_mode. Inspired by a request from Christian Holler. - Added a new benchmarking option, as requested by Kostya Serebryany. --------------- -Version 2.07b: --------------- +### Version 2.07b: - Added CPU affinity option (-Z) on Linux. With some caution, this can offer a significant (10%+) performance bump and reduce jitter. @@ -711,9 +599,7 @@ Version 2.07b: - Fixed confusing CPU_TARGET error messages with QEMU build. Spotted by Daniel Komaromy and others. --------------- -Version 2.06b: --------------- +### Version 2.06b: - Worked around LLVM persistent mode hiccups with -shared code. Contributed by Christian Holler. @@ -726,23 +612,17 @@ Version 2.06b: allow AFL to be built as a library. This is fairly use-specific and may have relatively little appeal to general audiences. --------------- -Version 2.05b: --------------- +### Version 2.05b: - Put __sanitizer_cov_module_init & co behind #ifdef to avoid problems with ASAN. Spotted by Christian Holler. --------------- -Version 2.04b: --------------- +### Version 2.04b: - Removed indirect-calls coverage from -fsanitize-coverage (since it's redundant). Spotted by Kostya Serebryany. --------------- -Version 2.03b: --------------- +### Version 2.03b: - Added experimental -fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc support that goes with some recent additions to LLVM, as implemented by Kostya Serebryany. @@ -764,16 +644,12 @@ Version 2.03b: - Added AFL_LD_PRELOAD to allow LD_PRELOAD to be set for targets without affecting AFL itself. Suggested by Daniel Godas-Lopez. --------------- -Version 2.02b: --------------- +### Version 2.02b: - Fixed a "lcamtuf can't count to 16" bug in the havoc stage. Reported by Guillaume Endignoux. --------------- -Version 2.01b: --------------- +### Version 2.01b: - Made an improvement to cycle counter color coding, based on feedback from Shai Sarfaty. @@ -782,18 +658,14 @@ Version 2.01b: - Fixed an installation issue with afl-as, as spotted by ilovezfs. --------------- -Version 2.00b: --------------- +### Version 2.00b: - Cleaned up color handling after a minor snafu in 1.99b (affecting some terminals). - Made minor updates to the documentation. --------------- -Version 1.99b: --------------- +### Version 1.99b: - Substantially revamped the output and the internal logic of afl-analyze. @@ -804,17 +676,13 @@ Version 1.99b: - Updated docs to better explain afl-analyze. --------------- -Version 1.98b: --------------- +### Version 1.98b: - Improved to "boring string" detection in afl-analyze. - Added technical_details.txt for afl-analyze. --------------- -Version 1.97b: --------------- +### Version 1.97b: - Added afl-analyze, a nifty tool to analyze the structure of a file based on the feedback from AFL instrumentation. This is kinda experimental, @@ -824,9 +692,7 @@ Version 1.97b: - Fixed a couple of typos, as reported by Jakub Wilk and others. --------------- -Version 1.96b: --------------- +### Version 1.96b: - Added -fpic to CFLAGS for the clang plugin, as suggested by Hanno Boeck. @@ -837,9 +703,7 @@ Version 1.96b: - Added support for AFL_SHUFFLE_QUEUE, based on discussions with Christian Holler. --------------- -Version 1.95b: --------------- +### Version 1.95b: - Fixed a harmless bug when handling -B. Spotted by Jacek Wielemborek. @@ -854,9 +718,7 @@ Version 1.95b: - Made a change to avoid spuriously setting __AFL_SHM_ID when AFL_DUMB_FORKSRV is set in conjunction with -n. Spotted by Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 1.94b: --------------- +### Version 1.94b: - Changed allocator alignment to improve support for non-x86 systems (now that llvm_mode makes this more feasible). @@ -866,29 +728,21 @@ Version 1.94b: - Fixed an obscure bug that would affect people trying to use afl-gcc with $TMP set but $TMPDIR absent. Spotted by Jeremy Barnes. --------------- -Version 1.93b: --------------- +### Version 1.93b: - Hopefully fixed a problem with MacOS X and persistent mode, spotted by Leo Barnes. --------------- -Version 1.92b: --------------- +### Version 1.92b: - Made yet another C++ fix (namespaces). Reported by Daniel Lockyer. --------------- -Version 1.91b: --------------- +### Version 1.91b: - Made another fix to make 1.90b actually work properly with C++ (d'oh). Problem spotted by Daniel Lockyer. --------------- -Version 1.90b: --------------- +### Version 1.90b: - Fixed a minor typo spotted by Kai Zhao; and made several other minor updates to docs. @@ -898,9 +752,7 @@ Version 1.90b: - Fixed a potential problem with deferred mode signatures getting optimized out by the linker (with --gc-sections). --------------- -Version 1.89b: --------------- +### Version 1.89b: - Revamped the support for persistent and deferred forkserver modes. Both now feature simpler syntax and do not require companion env @@ -908,16 +760,12 @@ Version 1.89b: - Added a bit more info about afl-showmap. Suggested by Jacek Wielemborek. --------------- -Version 1.88b: --------------- +### Version 1.88b: - Made AFL_EXIT_WHEN_DONE work in non-tty mode. Issue spotted by Jacek Wielemborek. --------------- -Version 1.87b: --------------- +### Version 1.87b: - Added QuickStartGuide.txt, a one-page quick start doc. @@ -925,9 +773,7 @@ Version 1.87b: - Revamped several parts of README. --------------- -Version 1.86b: --------------- +### Version 1.86b: - Added support for AFL_SKIP_CRASHES, which is a very hackish solution to the problem of resuming sessions with intermittently crashing inputs. @@ -937,17 +783,13 @@ Version 1.86b: - Fixed a minor typo in show_stats. Spotted by Dingbao Xie. --------------- -Version 1.85b: --------------- +### Version 1.85b: - Fixed a garbled sentence in notes on parallel fuzzing. Thanks to Jakub Wilk. - Fixed a minor glitch in afl-cmin. Spotted by Jonathan Foote. --------------- -Version 1.84b: --------------- +### Version 1.84b: - Made SIMPLE_FILES behave as expected when naming backup directories for crashes and hangs. @@ -961,9 +803,7 @@ Version 1.84b: - Made a fix for no lahf / sahf support on older versions of FreeBSD. Patch contributed by Alex Moneger. --------------- -Version 1.83b: --------------- +### Version 1.83b: - Fixed a problem with xargs -d on non-Linux systems in afl-cmin. Spotted by teor2345 and Ben Nagy. @@ -971,9 +811,7 @@ Version 1.83b: - Fixed an implicit declaration in LLVM mode on MacOS X. Reported by Kai Zhao. --------------- -Version 1.82b: --------------- +### Version 1.82b: - Fixed a harmless but annoying race condition in persistent mode - signal delivery is a bit more finicky than I thought. @@ -982,9 +820,7 @@ Version 1.82b: - Tweaked AFL_PERSISTENT to force AFL_NO_VAR_CHECK. --------------- -Version 1.81b: --------------- +### Version 1.81b: - Added persistent mode for in-process fuzzing. See llvm_mode/README.llvm. Inspired by Kostya Serebryany and Christian Holler. @@ -995,18 +831,14 @@ Version 1.81b: - Included a potential fix for LLVM mode issues on MacOS X, based on the investigation done by teor2345. --------------- -Version 1.80b: --------------- +### Version 1.80b: - Made afl-cmin tolerant of whitespaces in filenames. Suggested by Jonathan Neuschafer and Ketil Froyn. - Added support for AFL_EXIT_WHEN_DONE, as suggested by Michael Rash. --------------- -Version 1.79b: --------------- +### Version 1.79b: - Added support for dictionary levels, see testcases/README.testcases. @@ -1014,9 +846,7 @@ Version 1.79b: - Added a note about Preeny. --------------- -Version 1.78b: --------------- +### Version 1.78b: - Added a dictionary for PDF, contributed by Ben Nagy. @@ -1025,9 +855,7 @@ Version 1.78b: - Fixed a problem with crash reporter detection on MacOS X, as reported by Louis Dassy. --------------- -Version 1.77b: --------------- +### Version 1.77b: - Extended the -x option to support single-file dictionaries. @@ -1035,9 +863,7 @@ Version 1.77b: - Removed newlines from HTML keywords in testcases/_extras/html/. --------------- -Version 1.76b: --------------- +### Version 1.76b: - Very significantly reduced the number of duplicate execs during deterministic checks, chiefly in int16 and int32 stages. Confirmed @@ -1051,9 +877,7 @@ Version 1.76b: - Added a note about integrating afl-fuzz with third-party tools. --------------- -Version 1.75b: --------------- +### Version 1.75b: - Improved argv_fuzzing to allow it to emit empty args. Spotted by Jakub Wilk. @@ -1068,9 +892,7 @@ Version 1.75b: - Fixed a typo. Reported by Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 1.74b: --------------- +### Version 1.74b: - Added an example argv[] fuzzing wrapper in examples/argv_fuzzing. Reworked the bash example to be faster, too. @@ -1091,27 +913,21 @@ Version 1.74b: - Switched qemu_mode to use the newly-released QEMU 2.3.0, which contains a couple of minor bugfixes. --------------- -Version 1.73b: --------------- +### Version 1.73b: - Fixed a pretty stupid bug in effector maps that could sometimes cause AFL to fuzz slightly more than necessary; and in very rare circumstances, could lead to SEGV if eff_map is aligned with page boundary and followed by an unmapped page. Spotted by Jonathan Gray. --------------- -Version 1.72b: --------------- +### Version 1.72b: - Fixed a glitch in non-x86 install, spotted by Tobias Ospelt. - Added a minor safeguard to llvm_mode Makefile following a report from Kai Zhao. --------------- -Version 1.71b: --------------- +### Version 1.71b: - Fixed a bug with installed copies of AFL trying to use QEMU mode. Spotted by G.M. Lime. @@ -1121,9 +937,7 @@ Version 1.71b: - Fixed a typo, thanks to Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 1.70b: --------------- +### Version 1.70b: - Modified resumption code to reuse the original timeout value when resuming a session if -t is not given. This prevents timeout creep in continuous @@ -1139,16 +953,12 @@ Version 1.70b: - Added a more prominent note about the MacOS X trade-offs to Makefile. --------------- -Version 1.69b: --------------- +### Version 1.69b: - Added support for deferred initialization in LLVM mode. Suggested by Richard Godbee. --------------- -Version 1.68b: --------------- +### Version 1.68b: - Fixed a minor PRNG glitch that would make the first seconds of a fuzzing job deterministic. Thanks to Andreas Stieger. @@ -1158,15 +968,11 @@ Version 1.68b: - Clarified the footnote in README. --------------- -Version 1.67b: --------------- +### Version 1.67b: - Made one more correction to llvm_mode Makefile, spotted by Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 1.66b: --------------- +### Version 1.66b: - Added CC / CXX support to llvm_mode Makefile. Requested by Charlie Eriksen. @@ -1177,17 +983,13 @@ Version 1.66b: - Removed build date and time from banners to give people deterministic builds. Requested by Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 1.65b: --------------- +### Version 1.65b: - Fixed a snafu with some leftover code in afl-clang-fast. - Corrected even moar typos. --------------- -Version 1.64b: --------------- +### Version 1.64b: - Further simplified afl-clang-fast runtime by reverting .init_array to __attribute__((constructor(0)). This should improve compatibility with @@ -1200,18 +1002,14 @@ Version 1.64b: - Removed unnecessary instrumentation density adjustment for the LLVM mode. Reported by Jonathan Neuschafer. --------------- -Version 1.63b: --------------- +### Version 1.63b: - Updated cgroups_asan/ with a new version from Sam, made a couple changes to streamline it and keep parallel afl instances in separate groups. - Fixed typos, thanks to Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 1.62b: --------------- +### Version 1.62b: - Improved the handling of -x in afl-clang-fast, @@ -1220,9 +1018,7 @@ Version 1.62b: - Fixed the llvm-config bug for good (thanks to Tobias Ospelt). --------------- -Version 1.61b: --------------- +### Version 1.61b: - Fixed an obscure bug compiling OpenSSL with afl-clang-fast. Patch by Laszlo Szekeres. @@ -1233,9 +1029,7 @@ Version 1.61b: Tobias Ospelt. (There is another odd bug there that hasn't been fully fixed - TBD). --------------- -Version 1.60b: --------------- +### Version 1.60b: - Allowed examples/llvm_instrumentation/ to graduate to llvm_mode/. @@ -1257,9 +1051,7 @@ Version 1.60b: - Added MEM_BARRIER() to afl-showmap and afl-tmin, just to be safe. --------------- -Version 1.59b: --------------- +### Version 1.59b: - Imported Laszlo Szekeres' experimental LLVM instrumentation into examples/llvm_instrumentation. I'll work on including it in the @@ -1267,9 +1059,7 @@ Version 1.59b: - Fixed another typo, thanks to Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 1.58b: --------------- +### Version 1.58b: - Added a workaround for abort() behavior in -lpthread programs in QEMU mode. Spotted by Aidan Thornton. @@ -1277,9 +1067,7 @@ Version 1.58b: - Made several documentation updates, including links to the static instrumentation tool (sister_projects.txt). --------------- -Version 1.57b: --------------- +### Version 1.57b: - Fixed a problem with exception handling on some versions of MacOS X. Spotted by Samir Aguiar and Anders Wang Kristensen. @@ -1287,9 +1075,7 @@ Version 1.57b: - Tweaked afl-gcc to use BIN_PATH instead of a fixed string in help messages. --------------- -Version 1.56b: --------------- +### Version 1.56b: - Renamed related_work.txt to historical_notes.txt. @@ -1298,16 +1084,12 @@ Version 1.56b: - Added docs/sister_projects.txt with a list of inspired or closely related utilities. --------------- -Version 1.55b: --------------- +### Version 1.55b: - Fixed a glitch with afl-showmap opening /dev/null with O_RDONLY when running in quiet mode. Spotted by Tyler Nighswander. --------------- -Version 1.54b: --------------- +### Version 1.54b: - Added another postprocessor example for PNG. @@ -1316,24 +1098,18 @@ Version 1.54b: - Improved -ldl handling. Suggested by Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 1.53b: --------------- +### Version 1.53b: - Fixed an -l ordering issue that is apparently still a problem on Ubuntu. Spotted by William Robinet. --------------- -Version 1.52b: --------------- +### Version 1.52b: - Added support for file format postprocessors. Requested by Ben Nagy. This feature is intentionally buried, since it's fairly easy to misuse and useful only in some scenarios. See examples/post_library/. --------------- -Version 1.51b: --------------- +### Version 1.51b: - Made it possible to properly override LD_BIND_NOW after one very unusual report of trouble. @@ -1342,9 +1118,7 @@ Version 1.51b: - Fixed a bug in AFL_DUMB_FORKSRV. --------------- -Version 1.50b: --------------- +### Version 1.50b: - Fixed a flock() bug that would prevent dir reuse errors from kicking in every now and then. @@ -1356,26 +1130,20 @@ Version 1.50b: - Fixed a typo or two. --------------- -Version 1.49b: --------------- +### Version 1.49b: - Added code to save original command line in fuzzer_stats and crashes/README.txt. Also saves fuzzer version in fuzzer_stats. Requested by Ben Nagy. --------------- -Version 1.48b: --------------- +### Version 1.48b: - Fixed a bug with QEMU fork server crashes when translation is attempted after a jump to an invalid pointer in the child process (i.e., after bumping into a particularly nasty security bug in the tested binary). Reported by Tyler Nighswander. --------------- -Version 1.47b: --------------- +### Version 1.47b: - Fixed a bug with afl-cmin in -Q mode complaining about binary being not instrumented. Thanks to Jonathan Neuschafer for the bug report. @@ -1385,9 +1153,7 @@ Version 1.47b: - Improved the use of colors when showing crash counts in -C mode. --------------- -Version 1.46b: --------------- +### Version 1.46b: - Improved instrumentation performance on 32-bit systems by getting rid of xor-swap (oddly enough, xor-swap is still faster on 64-bit) and tweaking @@ -1395,9 +1161,7 @@ Version 1.46b: - Made path depth numbers more accurate with imported test cases. --------------- -Version 1.45b: --------------- +### Version 1.45b: - Added support for SIMPLE_FILES in config.h for folks who don't like descriptive file names. Generates very simple names without colons, @@ -1414,9 +1178,7 @@ Version 1.45b: - Made several minor updates to docs. --------------- -Version 1.44b: --------------- +### Version 1.44b: - Corrected two bungled attempts to get the -C mode work properly with afl-cmin (accounting for the short-lived releases tagged 1.42 and @@ -1426,9 +1188,7 @@ Version 1.44b: - Said goodbye to Hello Kitty, as requested by Padraig Brady. --------------- -Version 1.41b: --------------- +### Version 1.41b: - Added AFL_ALLOW_CRASHES=1 to afl-cmin. Allows crashing inputs in the output corpus. Changed the default behavior to disallow it. @@ -1448,9 +1208,7 @@ Version 1.41b: - Fixed typos and made improvements to several docs. --------------- -Version 1.40b: --------------- +### Version 1.40b: - Switched to smaller block op sizes during the first passes over the queue. Helps keep test cases small. @@ -1460,9 +1218,7 @@ Version 1.40b: - Updated a bunch of docs. --------------- -Version 1.39b: --------------- +### Version 1.39b: - Added the ability to skip inputs by sending SIGUSR1 to the fuzzer. @@ -1478,9 +1234,7 @@ Version 1.39b: versus 50 ms - ~40 execs/sec) and made several other cosmetic changes to the timeout code. --------------- -Version 1.38b: --------------- +### Version 1.38b: - Fixed a bug in the QEMU build script, spotted by William Robinet. @@ -1491,9 +1245,7 @@ Version 1.38b: - Fixed typos, thanks to Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 1.37b: --------------- +### Version 1.37b: - Added effector maps, which detect regions that do not seem to respond to bitflips and subsequently exclude them from more expensive steps @@ -1524,9 +1276,7 @@ Version 1.37b: - Moved afl-cmin back to bash, wasn't thinking straight. It has to stay on bash because other shells may have restrictive limits on array sizes. --------------- -Version 1.36b: --------------- +### Version 1.36b: - Switched afl-cmin over to /bin/sh. Thanks to Jonathan Gray. @@ -1542,23 +1292,17 @@ Version 1.36b: - Believe it or not, fixed some typos. Thanks to Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 1.35b: --------------- +### Version 1.35b: - Cleaned up regular expressions in some of the scripts to avoid errors on *BSD systems. Spotted by Jonathan Gray. --------------- -Version 1.34b: --------------- +### Version 1.34b: - Performed a substantial documentation and program output cleanup to better explain the QEMU feature. --------------- -Version 1.33b: --------------- +### Version 1.33b: - Added support for AFL_INST_RATIO and AFL_INST_LIBS in the QEMU mode. @@ -1573,17 +1317,13 @@ Version 1.33b: - Added a check for instrumented binaries when passing -Q to afl-fuzz. --------------- -Version 1.32b: --------------- +### Version 1.32b: - Fixed 'make install' following the QEMU changes. Spotted by Hanno Boeck. - Fixed EXTRA_PAR handling in afl-cmin. --------------- -Version 1.31b: --------------- +### Version 1.31b: - Hallelujah! Thanks to Andrew Griffiths, we now support very fast, black-box instrumentation of binary-only code. See qemu_mode/README.qemu. @@ -1591,9 +1331,7 @@ Version 1.31b: To use this feature, you need to follow the instructions in that directory and then run afl-fuzz with -Q. --------------- -Version 1.30b: --------------- +### Version 1.30b: - Added -s (summary) option to afl-whatsup. Suggested by Jodie Cunningham. @@ -1606,18 +1344,14 @@ Version 1.30b: - Fixed process crash messages with -m none. --------------- -Version 1.29b: --------------- +### Version 1.29b: - Improved the naming of test cases when orig: is already present in the file name. - Made substantial improvements to technical_details.txt. --------------- -Version 1.28b: --------------- +### Version 1.28b: - Made a minor tweak to the instrumentation to preserve the directionality of tuples (i.e., A -> B != B -> A) and to maintain the identity of tight @@ -1627,9 +1361,7 @@ Version 1.28b: - Added several sanity checks to afl-cmin. --------------- -Version 1.27b: --------------- +### Version 1.27b: - Made afl-tmin recursive. Thanks to Hanno Boeck for the tip. @@ -1640,9 +1372,7 @@ Version 1.27b: - Removed current_todo.txt and cleaned up the remaining docs. --------------- -Version 1.26b: --------------- +### Version 1.26b: - Added total execs/sec stat for afl-whatsup. @@ -1657,9 +1387,7 @@ Version 1.26b: - Fixed a memory limit issue during the build process on NetBSD-current. Reported by Thomas Klausner. --------------- -Version 1.25b: --------------- +### Version 1.25b: - Introduced afl-whatsup, a simple tool for querying the status of local synced instances of afl-fuzz. @@ -1672,22 +1400,16 @@ Version 1.25b: - Improved the checks for -m and -t values in afl-cmin. Bug report from Evan Huus. --------------- -Version 1.24b: --------------- +### Version 1.24b: - Introduced afl-getcpu, an experimental tool to empirically measure CPU preemption rates. Thanks to Jakub Wilk for the idea. --------------- -Version 1.23b: --------------- +### Version 1.23b: - Reverted one change to afl-cmin that actually made it slower. --------------- -Version 1.22b: --------------- +### Version 1.22b: - Reworked afl-showmap.c to support normal options, including -o, -q, -e. Also added support for timeouts and memory limits. @@ -1699,9 +1421,7 @@ Version 1.22b: - Fixed another typo in afl-tmin, courtesy of Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 1.21b: --------------- +### Version 1.21b: - Graduated minimize_corpus.sh to afl-cmin. It is now a first-class utility bundled with the fuzzer. @@ -1713,9 +1433,7 @@ Version 1.21b: - Made assorted changes to the doc to document afl-cmin and other stuff. --------------- -Version 1.20b: --------------- +### Version 1.20b: - Added AFL_DUMB_FORKSRV, as requested by Jakub Wilk. This works only in -n mode and allows afl-fuzz to run with "dummy" fork servers that @@ -1730,9 +1448,7 @@ Version 1.20b: - Fixed a typo (via Jakub Wilk). --------------- -Version 1.19b: --------------- +### Version 1.19b: - Improved exec failure detection in afl-fuzz and afl-showmap. @@ -1740,18 +1456,14 @@ Version 1.19b: - Added afl-tmin, a handy instrumentation-enabled minimizer. --------------- -Version 1.18b: --------------- +### Version 1.18b: - Fixed a serious but short-lived bug in the resumption behavior introduced in version 1.16b. - Added -t nn+ mode for soft-skipping timing-out paths. --------------- -Version 1.17b: --------------- +### Version 1.17b: - Fixed a compiler warning introduced in 1.16b for newer versions of GCC. Thanks to Jakub Wilk and Ilfak Guilfanov. @@ -1762,9 +1474,7 @@ Version 1.17b: - Made several noticeable performance improvements to deterministic arith and known int steps. --------------- -Version 1.16b: --------------- +### Version 1.16b: - Added a bit of code to make resumption pick up from the last known offset in the queue, rather than always rewinding to the start. Suggested @@ -1773,9 +1483,7 @@ Version 1.16b: - Switched to tighter timeout control for slow programs (3x rather than 5x average exec speed at init). --------------- -Version 1.15b: --------------- +### Version 1.15b: - Added support for AFL_NO_VAR_CHECK to speed up resumption and inhibit variable path warnings for some programs. @@ -1787,9 +1495,7 @@ Version 1.15b: - Made the UI a bit more descriptive by adding "n/a" instead of "0" in a couple of corner cases. --------------- -Version 1.14b: --------------- +### Version 1.14b: - Added a (partial) dictionary for JavaScript. @@ -1797,18 +1503,14 @@ Version 1.14b: - Tweaked the havoc scaling logic added in 1.12b. --------------- -Version 1.13b: --------------- +### Version 1.13b: - Improved the performance of minimize_corpus.sh by switching to a sort-based approach. - Made several minor revisions to the docs. --------------- -Version 1.12b: --------------- +### Version 1.12b: - Made an improvement to dictionary generation to avoid runs of identical bytes. @@ -1826,15 +1528,11 @@ Version 1.12b: - Fixed moar typos, as reported by Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 1.11b: --------------- +### Version 1.11b: - Added a bit more info about dictionary strategies to the status screen. --------------- -Version 1.10b: --------------- +### Version 1.10b: - Revised the dictionary behavior to use insertion and overwrite in deterministic steps, rather than just the latter. This improves coverage @@ -1842,9 +1540,7 @@ Version 1.10b: - Added a mention of "*" in status_screen.txt, as suggested by Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 1.09b: --------------- +### Version 1.09b: - Corrected a cosmetic problem with 'extras' stage count not always being accurate in the stage yields view. @@ -1852,15 +1548,11 @@ Version 1.09b: - Fixed a typo reported by Jakub Wilk and made some minor documentation improvements. --------------- -Version 1.08b: --------------- +### Version 1.08b: - Fixed a div-by-zero bug in the newly-added code when using a dictionary. --------------- -Version 1.07b: --------------- +### Version 1.07b: - Added code that automatically finds and extracts syntax tokens from the input corpus. @@ -1872,9 +1564,7 @@ Version 1.07b: - Added a couple of more exotic archive format samples. --------------- -Version 1.06b: --------------- +### Version 1.06b: - Switched to slightly more accurate (if still not very helpful) reporting of short read and short write errors. These theoretically shouldn't happen @@ -1887,18 +1577,14 @@ Version 1.06b: - Tweaked the odds of fuzzing non-favored test cases to make sure that baseline coverage of all inputs is reached sooner. --------------- -Version 1.05b: --------------- +### Version 1.05b: - Added a dictionary for WebP. - Made some additional performance improvements to minimize_corpus.sh, getting deeper into the bash woods. --------------- -Version 1.04b: --------------- +### Version 1.04b: - Made substantial performance improvements to minimize_corpus.sh with large datasets, albeit at the expense of having to switch back to bash @@ -1906,18 +1592,14 @@ Version 1.04b: - Tweaked afl-showmap to support the format used by the new script. --------------- -Version 1.03b: --------------- +### Version 1.03b: - Added code to skip README.txt in the input directory to make the crash exploration mode work better. Suggested by Jakub Wilk. - Added a dictionary for SQLite. --------------- -Version 1.02b: --------------- +### Version 1.02b: - Reverted the ./ search path in minimize_corpus.sh because people did not like it. @@ -1928,24 +1610,18 @@ Version 1.02b: - Added a check for /tmp binaries and -f locations in afl-fuzz. --------------- -Version 1.01b: --------------- +### Version 1.01b: - Added dictionaries for XML and GIF. --------------- -Version 1.00b: --------------- +### Version 1.00b: - Slightly improved the performance of minimize_corpus.sh, especially on Linux. - Made a couple of improvements to calibration timeouts for resumed scans. --------------- -Version 0.99b: --------------- +### Version 0.99b: - Fixed minimize_corpus.sh to work with dash, as suggested by Jakub Wilk. @@ -1955,9 +1631,7 @@ Version 0.99b: - Added support for afl-as --version, as required by one funky build script. Reported by William Robinet. --------------- -Version 0.98b: --------------- +### Version 0.98b: - Added a dictionary for TIFF. @@ -1968,9 +1642,7 @@ Version 0.98b: most notably including minimize_corpus.sh and triage_crashes.sh. Requested by Jonathan Gray. --------------- -Version 0.97b: --------------- +### Version 0.97b: - Fixed cosmetic issues around the naming of -x strategy files. @@ -1979,9 +1651,7 @@ Version 0.97b: - Fixed a very rare glitch when running instrumenting 64-bit code that makes heavy use of xmm registers that are also touched by glibc. --------------- -Version 0.96b: --------------- +### Version 0.96b: - Added support for extra dictionaries, provided testcases/_extras/png/ as a demo. @@ -1993,9 +1663,7 @@ Version 0.96b: - Fixed afl-plot syntax for gnuplot 5.x. Reported by David Necas. --------------- -Version 0.95b: --------------- +### Version 0.95b: - Cleaned up the OSX ReportCrash code. Thanks to Tobias Ospelt for help. @@ -2003,24 +1671,18 @@ Version 0.95b: - Refreshed the INSTALL file. --------------- -Version 0.94b: --------------- +### Version 0.94b: - Added in-place resume (-i-) to address a common user complaint. - Added an awful workaround for ReportCrash on MacOS X. Problem spotted by Joseph Gentle. --------------- -Version 0.93b: --------------- +### Version 0.93b: - Fixed the link() workaround, as reported by Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 0.92b: --------------- +### Version 0.92b: - Added support for reading test cases from another filesystem. Requested by Jakub Wilk. @@ -2029,9 +1691,7 @@ Version 0.92b: - Added a sample PDF document. --------------- -Version 0.91b: --------------- +### Version 0.91b: - Refactored minimize_corpus.sh to make it a bit more user-friendly and to select for smallest files, not largest bitmaps. Offers a modest corpus @@ -2039,9 +1699,7 @@ Version 0.91b: - Slightly improved the performance of splicing code. --------------- -Version 0.90b: --------------- +### Version 0.90b: - Moved to an algorithm where paths are marked as preferred primarily based on size and speed, rather than bitmap coverage. This should offer @@ -2064,9 +1722,7 @@ Version 0.90b: - Added a tty check for the colors warning in Makefile, to keep distro build logs tidy. Suggested by Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 0.89b: --------------- +### Version 0.89b: - Renamed afl-plot.sh to afl-plot, as requested by Padraig Brady. @@ -2074,9 +1730,7 @@ Version 0.89b: - Added banner information to fuzzer_stats, populated it to afl-plot. --------------- -Version 0.88b: --------------- +### Version 0.88b: - Added support for plotting, with design and implementation based on a prototype design proposed by Michael Rash. Huge thanks! @@ -2092,15 +1746,11 @@ Version 0.88b: - Added some detail to fuzzer_stats for parity with plot_file. --------------- -Version 0.87b: --------------- +### Version 0.87b: - Added support for MSAN, via AFL_USE_MSAN, same gotchas as for ASAN. --------------- -Version 0.86b: --------------- +### Version 0.86b: - Added AFL_NO_FORKSRV, allowing the forkserver to be bypassed. Suggested by Ryan Govostes. @@ -2109,9 +1759,7 @@ Version 0.86b: - Made minor improvements to crash_triage.sh, as suggested by Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 0.85b: --------------- +### Version 0.85b: - Fixed the CPU counting code - no sysctlbyname() on OpenBSD, d'oh. Bug reported by Daniel Dickman. @@ -2119,27 +1767,21 @@ Version 0.85b: - Made a slight correction to error messages - the advice on testing with ulimit was a tiny bit off by a factor of 1024. --------------- -Version 0.84b: --------------- +### Version 0.84b: - Added support for the CPU widget on some non-Linux platforms (I hope). Based on feedback from Ryan Govostes. - Cleaned up the changelog (very meta). --------------- -Version 0.83b: --------------- +### Version 0.83b: - Added examples/clang_asm_normalize/ and related notes in env_variables.txt and afl-as.c. Thanks to Ryan Govostes for the idea. - Added advice on hardware utilization in README. --------------- -Version 0.82b: --------------- +### Version 0.82b: - Made additional fixes for Xcode support, juggling -Q and -q flags. Thanks to Ryan Govostes. @@ -2147,9 +1789,7 @@ Version 0.82b: - Added a check for __asm__ blocks and switches to .intel_syntax in assembly. Based on feedback from Ryan Govostes. --------------- -Version 0.81b: --------------- +### Version 0.81b: - A workaround for Xcode 6 as -Q flag glitch. Spotted by Ryan Govostes. @@ -2157,9 +1797,7 @@ Version 0.81b: - Fix for a slightly busted path scoring conditional. Minor practical impact. --------------- -Version 0.80b: --------------- +### Version 0.80b: - Added a check for $PATH-induced loops. Problem noticed by Kartik Agaram. @@ -2168,18 +1806,14 @@ Version 0.80b: - Added an override for AFL_USE_ASAN if set at afl compile time. Requested by Hanno Boeck. --------------- -Version 0.79b: --------------- +### Version 0.79b: - Made minor adjustments to path skipping logic. - Made several documentation updates to reflect the path selection changes made in 0.78b. --------------- -Version 0.78b: --------------- +### Version 0.78b: - Added a CPU governor check. Bug report from Joe Zbiciak. @@ -2198,9 +1832,7 @@ Version 0.78b: 64k and added a warning to detect older binaries that rely on smaller bitmaps. --------------- -Version 0.77b: --------------- +### Version 0.77b: - Added AFL_SKIP_CHECKS to bypass binary checks when really warranted. Feature requested by Jakub Wilk. @@ -2209,25 +1841,19 @@ Version 0.77b: - Added a warning for runs that are aborted early on. --------------- -Version 0.76b: --------------- +### Version 0.76b: - Incorporated another signal handling fix for Solaris. Suggestion submitted by Martin Carpenter. --------------- -Version 0.75b: --------------- +### Version 0.75b: - Implemented a slightly more "elegant" kludge for the %llu glitch (see types.h). - Relaxed CPU load warnings to stay in sync with reality. --------------- -Version 0.74b: --------------- +### Version 0.74b: - Switched to more responsive exec speed averages and better UI speed scaling. @@ -2235,16 +1861,12 @@ Version 0.74b: - Fixed a bug with interrupted reads on Solaris. Issue spotted by Martin Carpenter. --------------- -Version 0.73b: --------------- +### Version 0.73b: - Fixed a stray memcpy() instead of memmove() on overlapping buffers. Mostly harmless but still dumb. Mistake spotted thanks to David Higgs. --------------- -Version 0.72b: --------------- +### Version 0.72b: - Bumped map size up to 32k. You may want to recompile instrumented binaries (but nothing horrible will happen if you don't). @@ -2259,25 +1881,19 @@ Version 0.72b: rhetorical question in the comments in afl-as.h has been answered. Tracked down by Mudge Zatko. --------------- -Version 0.71b: --------------- +### Version 0.71b: - Added a fix for the nonsensical MacOS ELF check. Spotted by Mudge Zatko. - Made some improvements to ASAN checks. --------------- -Version 0.70b: --------------- +### Version 0.70b: - Added explicit detection of ASANified binaries. - Fixed compilation issues on Solaris. Reported by Martin Carpenter. --------------- -Version 0.69b: --------------- +### Version 0.69b: - Improved the detection of non-instrumented binaries. @@ -2289,15 +1905,11 @@ Version 0.69b: - Fixed for a cosmetic SIGFPE when Ctrl-C is pressed while the fork server is spinning up. --------------- -Version 0.68b: --------------- +### Version 0.68b: - Added crash exploration mode! Woot! --------------- -Version 0.67b: --------------- +### Version 0.67b: - Fixed several more typos, the project is now cartified 100% typo-free. Thanks to Thomas Jarosch and Jakub Wilk. @@ -2309,9 +1921,7 @@ Version 0.67b: - Made it possible to override -O3 in Makefile. Suggested by Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 0.66b: --------------- +### Version 0.66b: - Fixed a very obscure issue with build systems that use gcc as an assembler for hand-written .s files; this would confuse afl-as. Affected nss, reported @@ -2320,24 +1930,18 @@ Version 0.66b: - Fixed a bug when cleaning up synchronized fuzzer output dirs. Issue reported by Thomas Jarosch. --------------- -Version 0.65b: --------------- +### Version 0.65b: - Cleaned up shell printf escape codes in Makefile. Reported by Jakub Wilk. - Added more color to fuzzer_stats, provided short documentation of the file format, and made several other stats-related improvements. --------------- -Version 0.64b: --------------- +### Version 0.64b: - Enabled GCC support on MacOS X. --------------- -Version 0.63b: --------------- +### Version 0.63b: - Provided a new, simplified way to pass data in files (@@). See README. @@ -2350,9 +1954,7 @@ Version 0.63b: - Added a build-time warning for inverse video terminals and better instructions in status_screen.txt. --------------- -Version 0.62b: --------------- +### Version 0.62b: - Made minor improvements to the allocator, as suggested by Tobias Ospelt. @@ -2362,9 +1964,7 @@ Version 0.62b: - Fixed typos in parallel_fuzzing.txt. Problems spotted by Thomas Jarosch. --------------- -Version 0.61b: --------------- +### Version 0.61b: - Fixed a minor issue with clang detection on systems with a clang cc wrapper, so that afl-gcc doesn't confuse it with GCC. @@ -2373,9 +1973,7 @@ Version 0.61b: - Fixed a glitch with crash removal (README.txt left behind, d'oh). --------------- -Version 0.60b: --------------- +### Version 0.60b: - Fixed problems with jump tables generated by exotic versions of GCC. This solves an outstanding problem on OpenBSD when using afl-gcc + PIE (not @@ -2388,9 +1986,7 @@ Version 0.60b: - Added docs/INSTALL. --------------- -Version 0.59b: --------------- +### Version 0.59b: - Modified 'make install' to also install test cases. @@ -2398,9 +1994,7 @@ Version 0.59b: - More work on RLIMIT_AS for OpenBSD. --------------- -Version 0.58b: --------------- +### Version 0.58b: - Added a core count check on Linux. @@ -2408,9 +2002,7 @@ Version 0.58b: - Added a rudimentary CPU utilization meter to help with optimal loading. --------------- -Version 0.57b: --------------- +### Version 0.57b: - Made fixes to support FreeBSD and OpenBSD: use_64bit is now inferred if not explicitly specified when calling afl-as, and RLIMIT_AS is behind an #ifdef. @@ -2422,18 +2014,14 @@ Version 0.57b: - Made a couple of Makefile improvements as proposed by Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 0.56b: --------------- +### Version 0.56b: - Added probabilistic instrumentation density reduction in ASAN mode. This compensates for ASAN-specific branches in a crude but workable way. - Updated notes_for_asan.txt. --------------- -Version 0.55b: --------------- +### Version 0.55b: - Implemented smarter out_dir behavior, automatically deleting directories that don't contain anything of special value. Requested by several folks, @@ -2447,16 +2035,12 @@ Version 0.55b: - Made it possible to resume by doing -i <out_dir>, without having to specify -i <out_dir>/queue/. --------------- -Version 0.54b: --------------- +### Version 0.54b: - Added a fix for -Wformat warning messages (oops, I thought this had been in place for a while). --------------- -Version 0.53b: --------------- +### Version 0.53b: - Redesigned the crash & hang duplicate detection code to better deal with fault conditions that can be reached in a multitude of ways. @@ -2477,9 +2061,7 @@ Version 0.53b: - Added a fix for harmless but absurd trim ratios shown if the first exec in the trimmer timed out. Spotted by @EspenGx. --------------- -Version 0.52b: --------------- +### Version 0.52b: - Added a quick summary of the contents in examples/. @@ -2492,9 +2074,7 @@ Version 0.52b: (To fix this, simply move <out_dir>/.state/* from an older run to <out_dir>/.state/deterministic_done/*.) --------------- -Version 0.51b: --------------- +### Version 0.51b: - Changed the search order for afl-as to avoid the problem with older copies installed system-wide; this also means that I can remove the Makefile check @@ -2506,9 +2086,7 @@ Version 0.51b: - Fixed the test_prev target in Makefile, as reported by Ozzy Johnson. --------------- -Version 0.50b: --------------- +### Version 0.50b: - Improved the 'make install' logic, as suggested by Padraig Brady. @@ -2528,9 +2106,7 @@ Version 0.50b: - Made a regression fix to afl-as to ignore .LBB labels in gcc mode. --------------- -Version 0.49b: --------------- +### Version 0.49b: - Fixed more typos, as found by Jakub Wilk. @@ -2545,9 +2121,7 @@ Version 0.49b: - Improved installation process to properly create symlinks, rather than copies of binaries. --------------- -Version 0.48b: --------------- +### Version 0.48b: - Improved afl-fuzz to force-set ASAN_OPTIONS=abort_on_error=1. Otherwise, ASAN crashes wouldn't be caught at all. Reported by Hanno Boeck. @@ -2560,9 +2134,7 @@ Version 0.48b: .o file has 5+ parameters. No impact on code running under afl-fuzz or afl-showmap. Issue spotted by Padraig Brady. --------------- -Version 0.47b: --------------- +### Version 0.47b: - Fixed another Makefile bug for parallel builds of afl. Problem identified by Richard W. M. Jones. @@ -2574,9 +2146,7 @@ Version 0.47b: - Moved the project to http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/. --------------- -Version 0.46b: --------------- +### Version 0.46b: - Cleaned up Makefile dependencies for parallel builds. Requested by Richard W. M. Jones. @@ -2591,9 +2161,7 @@ Version 0.46b: switch between .code32 and .code64. Addresses a glitch spotted by Hanno Boeck with compiling ToT gdb. --------------- -Version 0.45b: --------------- +### Version 0.45b: - Implemented a test case trimmer. Results in 20-30% size reduction for many types of work loads, with very pronounced improvements in path discovery @@ -2614,9 +2182,7 @@ Version 0.45b: - Switched to saner behavior with non-tty stdout (less output generated, no ANSI art). --------------- -Version 0.44b: --------------- +### Version 0.44b: - Added support for AFL_CC and AFL_CXX, based on a patch from Ben Laurie. @@ -2632,9 +2198,7 @@ Version 0.44b: - Made more consistent use of color reset codes, as suggested by Oliver Kunz. --------------- -Version 0.43b: --------------- +### Version 0.43b: - Fixed a bug with 64-bit gcc -shared relocs. @@ -2647,9 +2211,7 @@ Version 0.43b: - Made a minor change to the Makefile GCC check. Suggested by Hanno Boeck. --------------- -Version 0.42b: --------------- +### Version 0.42b: - Fixed a bug with red zone handling for 64-bit (oops!). Problem reported by Felix Groebert. @@ -2664,9 +2226,7 @@ Version 0.42b: - Improved check for 64-bit compilation, plus several sanity checks in Makefile. --------------- -Version 0.41b: --------------- +### Version 0.41b: - Fixed a fork served bug for processes that call execve(). @@ -2686,18 +2246,14 @@ Version 0.41b: - Added much better error messages for crashes when importing test cases or otherwise calibrating the binary. --------------- -Version 0.40b: --------------- +### Version 0.40b: - Added support for parallelized fuzzing. Inspired by earlier patch from Sebastian Roschke. - Added an example in examples/distributed_fuzzing/. --------------- -Version 0.39b: --------------- +### Version 0.39b: - Redesigned status screen, now 90% more spiffy. @@ -2716,9 +2272,7 @@ Version 0.39b: - Added performance_tips.txt. --------------- -Version 0.38b: --------------- +### Version 0.38b: - Fixed an fd leak and +cov tracking bug resulting from changes in 0.37b. @@ -2726,9 +2280,7 @@ Version 0.38b: - Added a visual indication when running in non-instrumented mode. --------------- -Version 0.37b: --------------- +### Version 0.37b: - Added fuzz state tracking for more seamless resumption of aborted fuzzing sessions. @@ -2745,9 +2297,7 @@ Version 0.37b: - Improved instrumentation to explicitly cover the other leg of every branch. --------------- -Version 0.36b: --------------- +### Version 0.36b: - Implemented fork server support to avoid the overhead of execve(). A nearly-verbatim design from Jann Horn; still pending part 2 that would @@ -2760,22 +2310,16 @@ Version 0.36b: - Fixed the way IGNORE_FINDS works (was a bit broken after adding splicing and path skip heuristics). --------------- -Version 0.35b: --------------- +### Version 0.35b: - Properly integrated 64-bit instrumentation into afl-as. --------------- -Version 0.34b: --------------- +### Version 0.34b: - Added a new exec count classifier (the working theory is that it gets meaningful coverage with fewer test cases spewed out). --------------- -Version 0.33b: --------------- +### Version 0.33b: - Switched to new, somewhat experimental instrumentation that tries to target only arcs, rather than every line. May be fragile, but is a lot @@ -2784,34 +2328,24 @@ Version 0.33b: - Made several other cosmetic fixes and typo corrections, thanks to Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 0.32b: --------------- +### Version 0.32b: - Another take at fixing the C++ exception thing. Reported by Jakub Wilk. --------------- -Version 0.31b: --------------- +### Version 0.31b: - Made another fix to afl-as to address a potential problem with newer versions of GCC (introduced in 0.28b). Thanks to Jann Horn. --------------- -Version 0.30b: --------------- +### Version 0.30b: - Added more detail about the underlying operations in file names. --------------- -Version 0.29b: --------------- +### Version 0.29b: - Made some general improvements to chunk operations. --------------- -Version 0.28b: --------------- +### Version 0.28b: - Fixed C++ exception handling in newer versions of GCC. Problem diagnosed by Eberhard Mattes. @@ -2819,9 +2353,7 @@ Version 0.28b: - Fixed the handling of the overflow flag. Once again, thanks to Eberhard Mattes. --------------- -Version 0.27b: --------------- +### Version 0.27b: - Added prioritization of new paths over the already-fuzzed ones. @@ -2834,9 +2366,7 @@ Version 0.27b: - Switched to better output file names, keeping track of stage and splicing sources. --------------- -Version 0.26b: --------------- +### Version 0.26b: - Revamped storage of testcases, -u option removed, @@ -2849,9 +2379,7 @@ Version 0.26b: - Fixed a bug in timeout detection. --------------- -Version 0.25b: --------------- +### Version 0.25b: - Improved count-based instrumentation. @@ -2866,16 +2394,12 @@ Version 0.25b: - Made various minor UI improvements and several other bugfixes. --------------- -Version 0.24b: --------------- +### Version 0.24b: - Added program name to the status screen, plus the -T parameter to go with it. --------------- -Version 0.23b: --------------- +### Version 0.23b: - Improved the detection of variable behaviors. @@ -2885,16 +2409,12 @@ Version 0.23b: - Switched to simplified (XOR-based) tuple instrumentation. --------------- -Version 0.22b: --------------- +### Version 0.22b: - Refactored the handling of long bitflips and some swaps. - Fixed the handling of gcc -pipe, thanks to anonymous reporter. ---------------------------- -Version 0.21b (2013-11-12): ---------------------------- +### Version 0.21b (2013-11-12): - Initial public release. |