oss-fuzz/docs/building_running_fuzzers.md

Building and Running Fuzzers

This page documents building and running fuzzers as part of an OSS project.

Prerequisites

Install Docker. The toolchain setup necessary to build coverage-guided fuzzers is complicated. Docker is used to simplify distribution of the toolchain and to produce repeatable results for distributed execution.

Building Fuzzers

Building fuzzer is a two-step process:

1. Building a container ready to compile fuzzers:

# in project directory; replace/define PROJECT_NAME
docker build -t ossfuzz/$PROJECT_NAME .

2. Running a container:

# in project directory; replace/define PROJECT_NAME
docker run -ti -v $PWD:/src/$PROJECT_NAME -v /tmp/out:/out ossfuzz/$PROJECT_NAME

/tmp/out will contain fuzzers.

Running Fuzzers

Fuzzers are statically linked executables and could be executed normally in Unbuntu-like environment. When Ubuntu environment is not aviable (or restricted environemnt is desirable), the fuzzer can easly be run inside docker container:

docker run -ti -v /tmp/out:/out -t ossfuzz/libfuzzer-runner /out/some_fuzzer_name --runs=100