Communication protocols form the bedrock of our interconnected world, yet vulnerabilities within their implementations pose significant security threats. Recent developments have seen a surge in fuzzing-based research dedicated to uncovering these vulnerabilities within protocol implementations. However, there still lacks a systematic overview of protocol fuzzing for answering the essential questions such as what the unique challenges are, how existing works solve them, etc. To bridge this gap, we conducted a comprehensive investigation of related works from both academia and industry. Our study includes a detailed summary of the specific challenges in protocol fuzzing and provides a systematic categorization and overview of existing research efforts. Furthermore, we explore and discuss potential future research directions in protocol fuzzing.

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协议模糊测试调查


通信协议构成了我们互联世界的基石，但其实施中的漏洞构成了重大的安全威胁。最近的发展表明，基于模糊测试的研究激增，这些研究致力于在协议实现中发现这些漏洞。然而，仍然缺乏对协议模糊测试的系统概述，无法回答基本问题，例如独特的挑战是什么，现有工作如何解决这些挑战等。为了弥合这一差距，我们对学术界和工业界的相关工作进行了全面调查。我们的研究包括对协议模糊测试中具体挑战的详细总结，并提供了现有研究工作的系统分类和概述。此外，我们探索和讨论了协议模糊测试中潜在的未来研究方向。