Protocol Fuzzing

Definitions

1. Fuzz testing aimed at network or file protocols by sending malformed, unexpected, or state-breaking inputs to parsers and implementations. Protocol fuzzing is especially useful for finding crashes, parser bugs, and state-machine flaws in devices, servers, and custom transports.

   In plain English: Sending malformed protocol messages to find bugs in how systems process them.

   Example: "The team used protocol fuzzing against the VPN appliance and uncovered a crash path in the handshake parser."

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