Quote: wynot minimized the random input that caused a crashed program; crash identification by stack trace

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We set up 16 different fuzz inputs, differing … [random] content … Miller's results still apply … Out of … 96 test runs, the [Unix] utilities crashed 42 … We applied our WYNOT tool [Worked Yesterday, NOt Today] to minimize … [to 1-2121 bytes]. … The minimized input may cause a different failure … [p. 194] As a consequence, we repeated our test … we used the backtrace--that is, the current program … [WYNOT reduced the minimum input to 14-43,963 bytes]..   Google-1   Google-2

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