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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/important_changes.md | 8 |
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diff --git a/docs/FAQ.md b/docs/FAQ.md index 3d3dce20..90cae453 100644 --- a/docs/FAQ.md +++ b/docs/FAQ.md @@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ If you find an interesting or important question missing, submit it via A program contains `functions`, `functions` contain the compiled machine code. The compiled machine code in a `function` can be in a single or many `basic - blocks`. A `basic block` is the largest possible number of subsequent machine - code instructions that has exactly one entry point (which can be be entered by - multiple other basic blocks) and runs linearly without branching or jumping to - other addresses (except at the end). + blocks`. A `basic block` is the **largest possible number of subsequent machine + code instructions** that has **exactly one entry point** (which can be be entered by + multiple other basic blocks) and runs linearly **without branching or jumping to + other addresses** (except at the end). ``` function() { @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ If you find an interesting or important question missing, submit it via AFL++ comes with several power schedules, initially ported from [AFLFast](https://github.com/mboehme/aflfast) however modified to be more effective and several more modes added. - The most effective modes are '-p fast` (default) and `-p explore`. + The most effective modes are `-p fast` (default) and `-p explore`. If you fuzz with several parallel afl-fuzz instances, then it is beneficial to assign a different schedule to each instance, however the majority should @@ -225,4 +225,4 @@ If you find an interesting or important question missing, submit it via package and because of that the AFL++ llvm plugins do not match anymore. Solution: `git pull ; make clean install` of AFL++. -</p></details> \ No newline at end of file +</p></details> diff --git a/docs/INSTALL.md b/docs/INSTALL.md index efec0d8b..2c1eaeb9 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL.md +++ b/docs/INSTALL.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ docker run -ti -v /location/of/your/target:/src aflplusplus/aflplusplus ``` This image is automatically generated when a push to the stable repo happens. -You will find your target source code in /src in the container. +You will find your target source code in `/src` in the container. If you want to build AFL++ yourself, you have many options. The easiest choice is to build and install everything: @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ sudo make install It is recommended to install the newest available gcc, clang and llvm-dev possible in your distribution! -Note that "make distrib" also builds FRIDA mode, QEMU mode, unicorn_mode -and more. If you just want plain AFL++, then do "make all". If you want +Note that `make distrib` also builds FRIDA mode, QEMU mode, unicorn_mode +and more. If you just want plain AFL++, then do `make all`. If you want some assisting tooling compiled but are not interested in binary-only targets then instead choose: diff --git a/docs/best_practices.md b/docs/best_practices.md index 96c6e3c2..133c645e 100644 --- a/docs/best_practices.md +++ b/docs/best_practices.md @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ allows you to define network state with different type of data packets. ### Improving stability -For fuzzing a 100% stable target that covers all edges is the best case. A 90% +For fuzzing, a 100% stable target that covers all edges is the best case. A 90% stable target that covers all edges is, however, better than a 100% stable target that ignores 10% of the edges. @@ -189,4 +189,4 @@ coding and/or disassembly and is effectively possible only with `afl-clang-fast` Recompile, fuzz it, be happy :) This link explains this process for - [Fuzzbench](https://github.com/google/fuzzbench/issues/677). \ No newline at end of file + [Fuzzbench](https://github.com/google/fuzzbench/issues/677). diff --git a/docs/important_changes.md b/docs/important_changes.md index 040a086d..39fe56b9 100644 --- a/docs/important_changes.md +++ b/docs/important_changes.md @@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ With AFL++ 4.00, we introduced the following changes from previous behaviors: * better naming for several fields in the UI With AFL++ 3.15, we introduced the following changes from previous behaviors: - * afl-cmin and afl-showmap -Ci now descent into subdirectories like afl-fuzz + * afl-cmin and afl-showmap -Ci now descend into subdirectories like afl-fuzz -i does (but note that afl-cmin.bash does not) With AFL++ 3.14, we introduced the following changes from previous behaviors: - * afl-fuzz: deterministic fuzzing it not a default for -M main anymore + * afl-fuzz: deterministic fuzzing is not a default for -M main anymore * afl-cmin/afl-showmap -i now descends into subdirectories (afl-cmin.bash, however, does not) @@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ behaviors and defaults: * if neither -M or -S is specified, `-S default` is assumed, so more fuzzers can easily be added later * `-i` input directory option now descends into subdirectories. It also does - not fatal on crashes and too large files, instead it skips them and uses + not fail on crashes and too large files, instead it skips them and uses them for splicing mutations - * -m none is now default, set memory limits (in MB) with, e.g., -m 250 + * -m none is now the default, set memory limits (in MB) with, e.g., -m 250 * deterministic fuzzing is now disabled by default (unless using -M) and can be enabled with -D * a caching of test cases can now be performed and can be modified by |