A Survey of Fuzzing Open-Source Operating Systems

February 17, 2025 · The Cartographer · 🏛 arXiv.org

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Authors Kun Hu, Qicai Chen, Wenzhuo Zhang, Zilong Lu, Bihuan Chen, You Lu, Haowen Jiang, Bingkun Sun, Xin Peng, Wenyun Zhao arXiv ID 2502.13163 Category cs.OS: Operating Systems Cross-listed cs.CR, cs.SE Citations 0 Venue arXiv.org Last Checked 12 days ago

Abstract

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.