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Fuzzing Python Modules

Delimitry
October 24, 2018

Fuzzing Python Modules

The presentation from SPbPython meetup about fuzzing Python modules with AFL (American fuzzy lop).

Delimitry

October 24, 2018
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  1. AFL (American fuzzy lop) American fuzzy lop – security-oriented fuzzer

    that employs a novel type of compile-time instrumentation and genetic algorithms [2] AFL found vulnerabilities and other bugs in: tcpdump, ffmpeg, VLC, OpenCV, MySQL, SQLite, PuTTY, wireshark, radare2, tmux, X.Org Server, PHP, OpenSSL, pngcrush, bash, Firefox, BIND, Qt etc.
  2. AFL (American fuzzy lop) Install AFL and python wrapper [3]:

    $ sudo apt install afl $ brew install afl-fuzz $ pip install python-afl
  3. Simple test import os import sys def main(): data =

    sys.stdin.read() if len(data) == 2 and data[0] == '1' and data[1] == '2': raise Exception('BUG!') os._exit(0) if __name__ == '__main__': import afl afl.start() main()
  4. AFL config and run # echo core > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern Maybe

    skip CPU freq is required: AFL_SKIP_CPUFREQ=1 or update CPUFREQ settings for CPUs: # echo performance | tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor $ py-afl-fuzz -m 500 -t 2000 -i in -o out -- python test.py
  5. Test compressed_rtf module import os import sys from compressed_rtf import

    compress, decompress def main(): data = sys.stdin.read() assert decompress(compress(data, compressed=True)) == data os._exit(0) if __name__ == '__main__': import afl afl.start() main()
  6. Bug in marshal module Artem Smotrakov found a bug in

    marshal module with his own fuzzer [6, 8]: import marshal value = ('this is a string', [1, 2, 3, 4], ('more tuples', 1.0, 2.3, 4.5), 'this is yet another string') dump = marshal.dumps(value) data = bytearray(dump) data[10] = 40 data[4] = 16 data[103] = 143 data[97] = 245 data[78] = 114 data[35] = 188 marshal.loads(bytes(data))
  7. Bug in marshal module Artem Smotrakov found a bug in

    marshal module with his own fuzzer [6, 7, 8]:
  8. References 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzing 2. http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/ 3. https://alexgaynor.net/2015/apr/13/introduction-to-fuzzing-in-python-with-afl/ 4. https://barro.github.io/2018/01/taking-a-look-at-python-afl/ 5.

    https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy 6. https://blog.gypsyengineer.com/en/security/python-marshal-module-fuzzing.html 7. https://bugs.python.org/issue27826 8. https://github.com/artem-smotrakov/python-marshal-fuzzer 9. http://tomviner.co.uk/tag/conferences.html 10. https://hypothesis.works/ 11. http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/zzuf 12. https://fuzzing-project.org/