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0 pointsmoyix9y ago0 comments

I think that's right for just picking a different PRNG seed. When you start looking at modifying the search heuristics, mutation operators, or other parts of the "strategy", you definitely start finding different bugs, though.

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hannob9y ago

Yes, absolutely. Different strategies can lead to vastly different results, often it's subtle things.

Good example: There was a bug I found in openssl that Libfuzzer was unable to find. The Libfuzzer developer was quite interested in this and has now adopted new mutation strategies: https://github.com/google/sanitizers/issues/710

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hannob9y ago

Yes, absolutely. Different strategies can lead to vastly different results, often it's subtle things.

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