Five months ago, we announcedOSS-Fuzz, Google's effort to help make open source software more secure and stable. Since then, our robot army has been working hard at fuzzing, processing 10 trillion test inputs a day. Thanks to the efforts of the open source community who have integrated a total of 47 projects, we've found over 1,000bugs (264of which are potential security vulnerabilities).
Breakdown of the types of bugs we're finding
Notable results
Once a project is integrated into OSS-Fuzz, the continuous and automated nature of OSS-Fuzz means that we often catch these issues just hours after the regression is introduced into the upstream repository, so that the chances of users being affected is reduced.
Fuzzing not only finds memory safety related bugs, it can also find correctness or logic bugs. One example is a carry propagating bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2017-3732).
Finally, OSS-Fuzz has reported over 300 timeout and out-of-memory failures (~75% of which got fixed). Not every project treats these as bugs, but fixing them enables OSS-Fuzz to find more interesting bugs.
Announcing rewards for open source projects
We believe that user and internet security as a whole can benefit greatly if more open source projects include fuzzing in their development process. To this end, we'd like to encourage more projects to participate and adopt the ideal integration guidelines that we've established.Combined with fixing all the issues that are found, this is often a significant amount of work for developers who may be working on an open source project in their spare time. To support these projects, we are expanding our existing Patch Rewardsprogram to include rewards for the integration of fuzz targets into OSS-Fuzz.
To qualify for these rewards, a project needs to have a large user base and/or be critical to global IT infrastructure. Eligible projects will receive $1,000 for initial integration, and up to $20,000 for ideal integration (the final amount is at our discretion). You have the option of donating these rewards to charity instead, and Google will double the amount.
To qualify for the ideal integration reward, projects must show that:
- Fuzz targets are checked into their upstream repository and integrated in the build system with sanitizer support (up to $5,000).
- Fuzz targets are efficientand provide good code coverage (>80%) (up to $5,000).
- Fuzz targets are part of the official upstream development and regression testing process, i.e. they are maintained, run against old known crashers and the periodically updated corpora(up to $5,000).
- The last $5,000 is a "l33t" bonus that we may reward at our discretion for projects that we feel have gone the extra mile or done something really awesome.