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27 Jun 2024

Christian Holler 2 min read

Process separation remains one of the most important parts of the Firefox security model and securing our IPC (Inter-Process Communication) interfaces is crucial to keep privileges in the different processes separated. We take a more detailed look at our newest tool for finding vulnerabilities in these interfaces – snapshot fuzzing. The post Snapshots for IPC Fuzzing appeared first on Mozilla…

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23 Jun 2022

Aria Beingessner 16 min read

For the last year, we've been working on the development of rust-minidump, a pure-Rust replacement for the minidump-processing half of google-breakpad. The final part in this series takes you through fuzzing rust-minidump. The post Fuzzing rust-minidump for Embarrassment and Crashes – Part 2 appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

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9 Feb 2021

Tyson Smith 7 min read

Mozilla has been fuzzing Firefox and its underlying components for a while. It has proven itself to be one of the most efficient ways to identify quality and security issues. In general, we apply fuzzing on different levels: there is fuzzing the browser as a whole but a significant amount of time is also spent on fuzzing isolated code (e.g.…

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