Un-bee-lievable Performance: Fast Coverage-guided Fuzzing with Honeybee and Intel Processor Trace

Published

2021-03-19 14:00

Collected

2026-07-03 04:11

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id: 1817
title: "Un-bee-lievable Performance: Fast Coverage-guided Fuzzing with Honeybee and Intel Processor Trace"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2021/03/19/un-bee-lievable-performance-fast-coverage-guided-fuzzing-with-honeybee-and-intel-processor-trace/"
published_at: "2021-03-19T14:00:15Z"
tags: ["fuzzing", "research", "performance", "coverage-guided", "intel-processor-trace", "honeybee"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1817"
lang: en
---

# Un-bee-lievable Performance: Fast Coverage-guided Fuzzing with Honeybee and Intel Processor Trace

## Summary

Honeybee is an experimental coverage-guided fuzzer built on Intel Processor Trace, long dismissed as slow. Better capture and trace decoding make IPT-based fuzzing practical, as benchmarks show.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2021-03-19T14:00:15Z
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2021/03/19/un-bee-lievable-performance-fast-coverage-guided-fuzzing-with-honeybee-and-intel-processor-trace/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1817