Re: Fuzzing harnesses for BusyBox (OSS-Fuzz prep) — would this be welcome?

Good day Laslie,

Sounds interesting.
Show the patch when it's ready.

On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 3:41 AM Leslie P. Polzer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> this probably got lost in the holiday slump.
>
> Any views on this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Leslie
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2025, at 5:11 PM, Leslie P. Polzer wrote:
>
> Hi BusyBox maintainers,
>
> I’m preparing a small OSS-Fuzz integration effort for BusyBox
> and wanted to check if you’d be open to fuzzing harnesses
> living in-tree.
>
> The initial idea is a small directory with a `make fuzzers` target
> (not built by default), and a couple of tiny harnesses focused on
> libbb parsers (base64/base32 to start, then higher‑value parsers
> like archives/volume_id/httpd parsing).
>
> OSS-Fuzz can then fuzz continuously at no cost, finding bugs
> before they become active exploits.
>
> Would this be welcome upstream? Happy to answer any questions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Leslie
>
>
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