From 4d55a427f07ba61d4f784b14bb1e6bb309781e9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: vanhauser-thc Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:06:18 +0200 Subject: afl-persistent-config Linux support + documentation --- README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8fcc31ff..35f6c278 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -623,6 +623,13 @@ system for optimal speed - which afl-fuzz checks and bails otherwise. Set `export AFL_SKIP_CPUFREQ=1` for afl-fuzz to skip this check if you cannot run afl-system-config with root privileges on the host for whatever reason. +Note there is also `sudo afl-persistent-config` which sets additional permanent +boot options for a much better fuzzing performance. + +Note that both scripts improve your fuzzing performance but also decrease your +system protection against attacks! So set strong firewall rules and only +expose SSH as a network service if you use these (which is highly recommended). + If you have an input corpus from step 2 then specify this directory with the `-i` option. Otherwise create a new directory and create a file with any content as test data in there. -- cgit 1.4.1