by
Paul Butcher
Fuzzing Out Bugs in Safety-Critical Embedded Software
Fuzzing Out Bugs in Safety-Critical Embedded Software: Paul Butcher from AdaCore talks to Brandon Lewis from Embedded Toolbox
7 entries tagged with #GNATcoverage
by
Léo Germond
How To: GNAT Pro with Docker
Using GNAT Pro with containerization technologies, such as Docker, is so easy, a whale could do it!
by
Paul Butcher
Finding Vulnerabilities using Advanced Fuzz testing and AFLplusplus v3.0
Some of you may recall an AdaCore blog post written in 2017 by Thales engineer Lionel Matias titled "Leveraging Ada Run-Time Checks with Fuzz Testing in AFL". This insightful post took us on a journey of discovery as Lionel demonstrated how Ada programs, compiled using GNAT Pro and an adapted assembler pass can be subjected to advanced fuzz testing. In order to achieve this Lionel demonstrated how instrumentation of the generated assembly code around jump and label instructions, could be subjected to grey-box (path aware) fuzz testing (using the original AFL v2.52b as the fuzz engine). Lionel explained how applying the comprehensive spectrum of Ada runtime checks, in conjunction with Ada's strong typing and contract based programming, enhanced the capabilities of fuzz testing beyond the abilities of other languages. Ada's advanced runtime checking, for exceptions like overflows, and the scrutiny of Ada's design by contract assertions allow corner case bugs to be found whilst also utilising fuzz testing to verify functional correctness.
GNATcoverage: getting started with instrumentation
This is the second post of a series about GNATcoverage and source code instrumentation. The previous post introduced how GNATcoverage worked originally and why we extended it to support source instrumentation-based code coverage computation. Let’s now see it in action in the most simple case: a basic program running on the host machine, i.e. the Linux/Windows machine that runs GNATcoverage itself.
Introducing source code instrumentation in GNATcoverage
This is the first post of a series about GNATcoverage and source code instrumentation.In order to make GNATcoverage viable in more contexts, we planned several years ago to add instrumentation support in GNATcoverage for Ada sources. This feature reached maturation recently and is available in the last Continuous Release, so it is a good time to present it with a blog series!
GNATcoverage moves to GitHub
Following the current trend, the GNATcoverage project moves to GitHub! Our new address is: https://github.com/AdaCore/gnatcoverage
Integrate new tools in GPS
This blog, the first in a series, explains the basic mechanisms that GPS (the GNAT Programming Studio) provides to integrate external tools. A small plugin might make your daily workflow more convenient by providing toolbar buttons and menus to spawn your tool and parse its output.