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Poster: Fuzzing IoT Firmware via Multi-stage Message Generation

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Bo Yu,

Pengfei Wang,

Tai Yue,

Yong TangAuthors Info & Claims

CCS '19: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Pages 2525 - 2527

https://doi.org/10.1145/3319535.3363247

Published: 06 November 2019 Publication History

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In this work, we present IoTHunter, the first grey-box fuzzer for fuzzing stateful protocols in IoT firmware. IoTHunter addresses the state scheduling problem based on a multi-stage message generation mechanism on runtime monitoring of IoT firmware. We evaluate IoTHunter with a set of real-world programs, and the result shows that IoTHunter outperforms black-box fuzzer boofuzz, which has a 2.2x, 2.0x, and 2.5x increase for function coverage, block coverage, and edge coverage, respectively. IoTHunter also found five new vulnerabilities in the firmware of home router Mikrotik, which have been reported to the vendor.

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CCS '19: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

November 2019

2755 pages

ISBN:9781450367479

DOI:10.1145/3319535

General Chairs:
Lorenzo Cavallaro
King's College London, UK
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Johannes Kinder
Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
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XiaoFeng Wang
Indiana University, USA
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Jonathan Katz
George Mason University, USA

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