Re: Chasing bugs / vulnerabilties

[Kurt Seifried <listuser () seifried org>]

Amen.
[snipsnip]

> Both white box (known source and specifications) and black box (using
> documetation for software without knowing the internals) testing should be
> carried out - by individuals separate and apart from the coders.
>
> Try the UNIX Fuzz experiment, first conducted at the University of
Wisconsin
> on multiple UNIX operating systems and when tried again several years
later
> revealed only slightly better results (the Fuzz experiment throws garbage
> input on the command line into a program and tests the response).   We
> (check out
> http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/coast/ms_penetration_testing/v11.html) tried
> the same experiment on WinNT with 'interesting' results.

Fuzz for Linux:
http://fuzz.sourceforge.net/

Secure programming documentation and software (several links).
http://www.securityportal.com/lskb/articles/kben10000082.html

ITS4
http://www.rstcorp.com/its4/

SLINT
http://www.l0pht.com/products.html#SLINT

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Kurt Seifried
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