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Setting up a New Project
Prerequisites
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Integrate one or more Fuzz Targets with the project you want to fuzz.
Examples: boringssl, SQLite, s2n, openssl, FreeType, re2, harfbuzz, pcre2, ffmpeg.
Overview
To add a new OSS project to OSS-Fuzz, you need a project subdirectory
inside the projects/
directory in OSS-Fuzz repository.
Example: boringssl project is located in
projects/boringssl
.
The project directory needs to contain the following three configuration files:
projects/<project_name>/project.yaml
- provides metadata about the project.projects/<project_name>/Dockerfile
- defines the container environment with information on dependencies needed to build the project and its fuzz targets.projects/<project_name>/build.sh
- build script that executes inside the container and generates project build.
To automatically create a new directory for your project and generate templated versions of these configuration files, run the following set of commands:
$ cd /path/to/oss-fuzz
$ export PROJECT_NAME=<project_name>
$ python infra/helper.py generate $PROJECT_NAME
It is preferred to keep and maintain fuzz targets in your own source code repository. If this is not possible due to various reasons, you can store them inside the OSS-Fuzz's project directory created above.
project.yaml
This file stores the metadata about your project. The following attributes are supported:
homepage
- Project's homepage.primary_contact
,auto_ccs
- Primary contact and CCs list. These people get access to ClusterFuzz which includes crash reports, fuzzer statistics, etc and are auto-cced on newly filed bugs in OSS-Fuzz tracker.sanitizers
(optional) - List of sanitizers to use. By default, you shouldn't override this and it will use the default list of supported sanitizers (currently - AddressSanitizer("address"), UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer("undefined")). If your project does not build with a particular sanitizer configuration and you need some time fixing it, then you can use this option to override the defaults temporarily. E.g. For disabling UndefinedBehaviourSanitizer build, then you can just specify all supported sanitizers, except "undefined".
Example: boringssl.
Dockerfile
This file defines the Docker image definition. This is where the build.sh script will be executed in. It is very simple for most projects:
FROM gcr.io/oss-fuzz-base/base-builder # base image with clang toolchain
MAINTAINER YOUR_EMAIL # maintainer for this file
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y ... # install required packages to build your project
RUN git clone <git_url> <checkout_dir> # checkout all sources needed to build your project
WORKDIR <checkout_dir> # current directory for build script
COPY build.sh fuzzer.cc $SRC/ # copy build script and other fuzzer files in src dir
Expat example: expat/Dockerfile
In the above example, the git clone will check out the source to $SRC/<checkout_dir>
.
build.sh
This file describes how to build fuzz targets for your project.
The script will be executed within the image built from Dockerfile
.
In general, this script will need to:
- Build the project using your build system with correct compiler and its flags provided as environment variables (see below).
- Build the fuzz targets, linking your project's build and libFuzzer.
Resulting binaries should be placed in
$OUT
.
Note:
- Please don't assume that the fuzzing engine is libFuzzer and hardcode in your build scripts.
In future, we will add support for other fuzzing engines like AFL.
So, link the fuzzing engine using
-lFuzzingEngine
, see example below. - Please make sure that the binary names for your fuzz targets contain only alphanumeric characters, underscore(_) or dash(-). Otherwise, they won't run on our infrastructure.
For expat, this looks like this:
#!/bin/bash -eu
./buildconf.sh
# configure scripts usually use correct environment variables.
./configure
make clean
make -j$(nproc) all
$CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 -Ilib/ \
$SRC/parse_fuzzer.cc -o $OUT/parse_fuzzer \
-lFuzzingEngine .libs/libexpat.a
cp $SRC/*.dict $SRC/*.options $OUT/
build.sh Script Environment
When build.sh script is executed, the following locations are available within the image:
Location | Env | Description |
---|---|---|
/out/ |
$OUT |
Directory to store build artifacts (fuzz targets, dictionaries, options files, seed corpus archives). |
/src/ |
$SRC |
Directory to checkout source files |
/work/ |
$WORK |
Directory for storing intermediate files |
/usr/lib/libFuzzingEngine.a |
$LIB_FUZZING_ENGINE |
Location of prebuilt fuzzing engine library (e.g. libFuzzer ) that needs to be linked with all fuzz targets (-lFuzzingEngine ). |
While files layout is fixed within a container, the environment variables are provided to be able to write retargetable scripts.
You must use the special compiler flags needed to build your project and fuzz targets. These flags are provided in the following environment variables:
Env Variable | Description |
---|---|
$CC , $CXX , $CCC |
The C and C++ compiler binaries. |
$CFLAGS , $CXXFLAGS |
C and C++ compiler flags. |
Most well-crafted build scripts will automatically use these variables. If not, pass them manually to the build tool.
See Provided Environment Variables section in
base-builder
image documentation for more details.
Disk space restrictions
Our builders have a disk size of 70GB (this includes space taken up by the OS). Builds must keep peak disk usage below this.
In addition to this, please keep the size of the build (everything copied to $OUT
) small (<10GB uncompressed) -- this will need be repeatedly transferred and unzipped during fuzzing and run on VMs with limited disk space.
Fuzzer execution environment
This page gives information about the environment that your fuzz targets will run on ClusterFuzz, and the assumptions that you can make.
Testing locally
Use the helper script to build docker image and fuzz targets.
$ cd /path/to/oss-fuzz
$ python infra/helper.py build_image $PROJECT_NAME
$ python infra/helper.py build_fuzzers --sanitizer <address/memory/undefined> $PROJECT_NAME
This should place the built binaries into /path/to/oss-fuzz/build/out/$PROJECT_NAME
directory on your machine (and $OUT
in the container).
Note: You must run these fuzz target binaries inside the base-runner docker container to make sure that they work properly:
$ python infra/helper.py run_fuzzer $PROJECT_NAME <fuzz_target>
If everything works locally, then it should also work on our automated builders and ClusterFuzz. If it fails, check out this entry.
It's recommended to look at code coverage as a sanity check to make sure that fuzz target gets to the code you expect.
$ python infra/helper.py coverage $PROJECT_NAME <fuzz_target>
Note: Currently, we only support AddressSanitizer (address) and UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (undefined) configurations. MemorySanitizer is in development mode and not recommended for use. Make sure to test each of the supported build configurations with the above commands (build_fuzzers -> run_fuzzer -> coverage).
Debugging Problems
Debugging document lists ways to debug your build scripts or fuzz targets in case you run into problems.
Custom libFuzzer options for ClusterFuzz
By default, ClusterFuzz will run your fuzzer without any options. You can specify
custom options by creating a my_fuzzer.options
file next to a my_fuzzer
executable in $OUT
:
[libfuzzer]
max_len = 1024
List of available options. Use of max_len
is highly recommended.
For out of tree fuzz targets, you will likely add options file using docker's
COPY
directive and will copy it into output in build script.
(example: woff2).
Seed Corpus
OSS-Fuzz uses evolutionary fuzzing algorithms. Supplying seed corpus consisting of good sample inputs is one of the best ways to improve fuzz target's coverage.
To provide a corpus for my_fuzzer
, put my_fuzzer_seed_corpus.zip
file next
to the fuzz target's binary in $OUT
during the build. Individual files in this
archive will be used as starting inputs for mutations. You can store the corpus
next to source files, generate during build or fetch it using curl or any other
tool of your choice.
(example: boringssl).
Seed corpus files will be used for cross-mutations and portions of them might appear in bug reports or be used for further security research. It is important that corpus has an appropriate and consistent license.
Dictionaries
Dictionaries hugely improve fuzzing efficiency for inputs with lots of similar sequences of bytes. libFuzzer documentation
Put your dict file in $OUT
and specify in .options file:
[libfuzzer]
dict = dictionary_name.dict
It is common for several fuzz targets to reuse the same dictionary if they are fuzzing very similar inputs. (example: expat).
Checking in to OSS-Fuzz repository
Fork OSS-Fuzz, commit and push to the fork, and then create a pull request with your change! Follow the Forking Project guide if you are new to contributing via GitHub.
Copyright headers
Please include copyright headers for all files checked in to oss-fuzz:
# Copyright 2016 Google Inc.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
#
################################################################################
If you are porting a fuzz target from Chromium, keep the original Chromium license header.
The end
Once your change is merged, your project and fuzz targets should be automatically built and run on
ClusterFuzz after a short while (< 1 day)!
Check your project's build status here.
Use ClusterFuzz web interface here to checkout the following items:
- Crashes generated
- Code coverage statistics
- Fuzzer statistics
- Fuzzer performance analyzer (linked from fuzzer statistics)