Packaging american fuzzy lop (a fuzzer)

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Nov 13 09:11:50 UTC 2014


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:51:25AM -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> > "American fuzzy lop" is the name of a rabbit breed, and also quite a
> > nice little fuzzing tool that I'm using to discover new bugs in my software:
> >
> >   http://code.google.com/p/american-fuzzy-lop/
> >
> > I want to submit a package for Fedora, but I'm not sure what the name
> > should be:
> >
> >   - american-fuzzy-lop
> >   - afl       (not taken in Fedora)
> >   - afl-fuzz  (the name of the main binary)
> >   - afl-fuzzer ?
> >
> > There doesn't seem to be a package for any other distro yet, so
> > there's no obvious precedent.
> 
> I think I have a very slight preference for "american-fuzzy-lop",
> unless there's a library, which I don't think there is.
> 
> If you cc me on the review bug, I'll review it :)

Here you go (and for anyone else interested):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163666

Rich.

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