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# OSS-Fuzz: Continuous Fuzzing for Open Source Software
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[Fuzz testing ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing ) is a well-known
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technique for uncovering programming errors in software.
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Many of these detectable errors, like [buffer overflow ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow ), can have serious security implications. Google has found [thousands] of security vulnerabilities and stability bugs by deploying [guided in-process fuzzing of Chrome components ](https://security.googleblog.com/2016/08/guided-in-process-fuzzing-of-chrome.html ),
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and we now want to share that service with the open source community.
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[thousands]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=label%3AStability-LibFuzzer%2CStability-AFL%20-status%3ADuplicate%2CWontFix& can=1
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In cooperation with the [Core Infrastructure Initiative ](https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/ ),
OSS-Fuzz aims to make common open source software more secure and stable by
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combining modern fuzzing techniques with scalable,
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distributed execution.
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We support the [libFuzzer ](http://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html ) and [AFL ](http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/ ) fuzzing engines
in combination with [Sanitizers ](https://github.com/google/sanitizers ), as well as
[ClusterFuzz ](https://github.com/google/clusterfuzz ),
a distributed fuzzer execution environment and reporting tool.
Currently, OSS-Fuzz supports C and C++ code, though other languages supported by [LLVM ](http://llvm.org ) may work too.
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## Overview
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## Documentation
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Read our [detailed documentation ](https://google.github.io/oss-fuzz ) to learn how to use OSS-Fuzz.
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## Trophies
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As of August 2019, OSS-Fuzz has found over [14,000] bugs in over [200] open source
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projects.
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[14,000]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/list?can=1& q=-status%3AWontFix%2CDuplicate+-Infra
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[200]: https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects
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## Blog posts
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* 2016-12-01 - [Announcing OSS-Fuzz: Continuous fuzzing for open source software ](https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/12/announcing-oss-fuzz-continuous-fuzzing.html ).
* 2017-05-08 - [OSS-Fuzz: Five months later, and rewarding projects ](https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/05/oss-fuzz-five-months-later-and.html )
* 2018-11-06 - [A New Chapter for OSS-Fuzz ](https://security.googleblog.com/2018/11/a-new-chapter-for-oss-fuzz.html )
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