---
id: 1815
title: "A Year in the Life of a Compiler Fuzzing Campaign"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2021/03/23/a-year-in-the-life-of-a-compiler-fuzzing-campaign/"
published_at: "2021-03-23T15:00:37Z"
tags: ["vulnerability-research", "fuzzing", "blockchain", "solidity", "compilers", "solc"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1815"
lang: en
---

# A Year in the Life of a Compiler Fuzzing Campaign

## Summary

A year of fuzzing the Solidity compiler solc produced 74 reports with 67 confirmed bugs. This retrospective asks whether fuzzing campaigns saturate and why sustained efforts still pay off.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2021-03-23T15:00:37Z
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2021/03/23/a-year-in-the-life-of-a-compiler-fuzzing-campaign/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1815