---
id: 1993
title: "Fuzzing Like It’s 1989"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2018/12/31/fuzzing-like-its-1989/"
published_at: "2018-12-31T11:50:18Z"
tags: ["fuzzing", "history", "research", "testing", "unix"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1993"
lang: en
---

# Fuzzing Like It’s 1989

## Summary

Revisits Barton Miller's original fuzzing study 30 years later, rerunning the methodology against modern UNIX utilities and cataloguing the crashes and hangs it still finds.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2018-12-31T11:50:18Z
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2018/12/31/fuzzing-like-its-1989/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1993