A Survey of Fuzzing Open-Source Operating Systems
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| author | Hu, Kun Chen, Qicai Zhang, Wenzhuo Lu, Zilong Chen, Bihuan Lu, You Jiang, Haowen Sun, Bingkun Peng, Xin Zhao, Wenyun |
| author_facet | Hu, Kun Chen, Qicai Zhang, Wenzhuo Lu, Zilong Chen, Bihuan Lu, You Jiang, Haowen Sun, Bingkun Peng, Xin Zhao, Wenyun |
| contents | Vulnerabilities in open-source operating systems (OSs) pose substantial security risks to software systems, making their detection crucial. While fuzzing has been an effective vulnerability detection technique in various domains, OS fuzzing (OSF) faces unique challenges due to OS complexity and multi-layered interaction, and has not been comprehensively reviewed. Therefore, this work systematically surveys the state-of-the-art OSF techniques, categorizes them based on the general fuzzing process, and investigates challenges specific to kernel, file system, driver, and hypervisor fuzzing. Finally, future research directions for OSF are discussed. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | A Survey of Fuzzing Open-Source Operating Systems Hu, Kun Chen, Qicai Zhang, Wenzhuo Lu, Zilong Chen, Bihuan Lu, You Jiang, Haowen Sun, Bingkun Peng, Xin Zhao, Wenyun Operating Systems Cryptography and Security Software Engineering Vulnerabilities in open-source operating systems (OSs) pose substantial security risks to software systems, making their detection crucial. While fuzzing has been an effective vulnerability detection technique in various domains, OS fuzzing (OSF) faces unique challenges due to OS complexity and multi-layered interaction, and has not been comprehensively reviewed. Therefore, this work systematically surveys the state-of-the-art OSF techniques, categorizes them based on the general fuzzing process, and investigates challenges specific to kernel, file system, driver, and hypervisor fuzzing. Finally, future research directions for OSF are discussed. |
| title | A Survey of Fuzzing Open-Source Operating Systems |
| topic | Operating Systems Cryptography and Security Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13163 |