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@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ make fairly broad use of environmental variables instead:
     overridden.
 
   - Setting `AFL_USE_ASAN` automatically enables ASAN, provided that your
-    compiler supports that. Note that fuzzing with ASAN is mildly challenging
+    compiler supports it. Note that fuzzing with ASAN is mildly challenging
     - see [notes_for_asan.md](notes_for_asan.md).
 
     (You can also enable MSAN via `AFL_USE_MSAN`; ASAN and MSAN come with the
@@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ make fairly broad use of environmental variables instead:
     there is the Control Flow Integrity sanitizer that can be activated by
     `AFL_USE_CFISAN=1`)
 
+  - Setting `AFL_USE_LSAN` automatically enables Leak-Sanitizer, provided
+    that your compiler supports it. To perform a leak check within your
+    program at a certain point (such as at the end of an __AFL_LOOP),
+    you can run the macro __AFL_LEAK_CHECK(); which will cause
+    an abort if any memory is leaked (you can combine this with the
+    LSAN_OPTIONS=suppressions option to supress some known leaks).
+
   - Setting `AFL_CC`, `AFL_CXX`, and `AFL_AS` lets you use alternate downstream
     compilation tools, rather than the default 'clang', 'gcc', or 'as' binaries
     in your `$PATH`.
@@ -277,6 +284,9 @@ checks or alter some of the more exotic semantics of the tool:
     normally indicated by the cycle counter in the UI turning green. May be
     convenient for some types of automated jobs.
 
+  - `AFL_EXIT_ON_SEED_ISSUES` will restore the vanilla afl-fuzz behaviour
+    which does not allow crashes or timeout seeds in the initial -i corpus.
+
   - `AFL_MAP_SIZE` sets the size of the shared map that afl-fuzz, afl-showmap,
     afl-tmin and afl-analyze create to gather instrumentation data from
     the target. This must be equal or larger than the size the target was
@@ -372,8 +382,8 @@ checks or alter some of the more exotic semantics of the tool:
     may complain of high load prematurely, especially on systems with low core
     counts. To avoid the alarming red color, you can set `AFL_NO_CPU_RED`.
 
-  - In QEMU mode (-Q), Unicorn mode (-U) and Frida mode (-O), `AFL_PATH` will
-    be searched for afl-qemu-trace.
+  - In QEMU mode (-Q) and Frida mode (-O), `AFL_PATH` will
+    be searched for afl-qemu-trace and afl-frida-trace.so.
 
   - In QEMU mode (-Q), setting `AFL_QEMU_CUSTOM_BIN` cause afl-fuzz to skip
     prepending `afl-qemu-trace` to your command line. Use this if you wish to use a
@@ -627,7 +637,14 @@ optimal values if not already present in the environment:
     msan_track_origins=0
     allocator_may_return_null=1
 ```
-  Be sure to include the first one when customizing anything, since some
-    MSAN versions don't call `abort()` on error, and we need a way to detect
-    faults.
+  - Similarly, the default `LSAN_OPTIONS` are set to:
+```
+    exit_code=23
+    fast_unwind_on_malloc=0
+    symbolize=0
+    print_suppressions=0
+```
+  Be sure to include the first ones for LSAN and MSAN when customizing
+     anything, since some MSAN and LSAN versions don't call `abort()` on
+     error, and we need a way to detect faults.