---
id: 1447
title: "Fuzzing between the lines in popular barcode software"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/10/31/fuzzing-between-the-lines-in-popular-barcode-software/"
published_at: "2024-10-31 13:00"
tags: ["memory-safety", "denial-of-service", "fuzzing", "code-execution", "zbar", "barcode"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1447"
lang: en
---

# Fuzzing between the lines in popular barcode software

## Summary

Trail of Bits fuzzed the ZBar barcode library despite a limited time budget, uncovering an out-of-bounds stack write that can enable code execution and a memory leak usable for denial of service.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2024-10-31 13:00
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/10/31/fuzzing-between-the-lines-in-popular-barcode-software/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1447