An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- April 24, 2024
- April 23, 2024
- April 22, 2024
- April 21, 2024
- April 20, 2024
- April 19, 2024
- April 18, 2024
Some of Our Sources
- Slashdot
- Engadget
- Technology Review
- Fuel Your Creativity
- Web Design Ledger
- Stylized Web
- Freelance Switch
- Web Resource Source
- Android Dissected
- Dev To
Help Webnuz
Referal links:
October 19, 2017 06:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jRwIhutHeig/targeted-fuzzing-is-improving-linux-security-linus-torvalds-says
Targeted Fuzzing Is Improving Linux Security, Linus Torvalds Says
On the sidelines of announcing the fifth release candidate for the Linux kernel version 4.14, Linus Torvalds said fuzzing, which involves stress testing a system by generating random code to induce errors, is helping the community find and fix a range of security vulnerabilities. He wrote: The other thing perhaps worth mentioning is how much random fuzzing people are doing, and it's finding things. We've always done fuzzing (who remembers the old "crashme" program that just generated random code and jumped to it? We used to do that quite actively very early on), but people have been doing some nice targeted fuzzing of driver subsystems etc, and there's been various fixes (not just this last week either) coming out of those efforts. Very nice to see.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jRwIhutHeig/targeted-fuzzing-is-improving-linux-security-linus-torvalds-says
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article
Slashdot
Slashdot was originally created in September of 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. Today it is owned by Geeknet, Inc..More About this Source Visit Slashdot