fuzzer

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noun

A software program that performs fuzz testing.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

nounfuzzer (plural fuzzers)

plural fuzzers

  1. computingA software program that performs fuzz testing.

    Found this bug on my own, no need for a fuzzer

    2010 April 6, MC Frontalot, “Zero Day” (track 1), in Zero Day ft. Dual Core, YTCracker, and Jane Silence
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    You should be able to write a simple fuzzer that hits your arguments to make sure your program is properly checking inputs. Actually, I would take this time to write a fuzzer to just learn how they are built.

    2006 August 5, “indentify^([sic]) if argument is char or float”, in comp.lang.c (Usenet), message-ID <1154846659.167840.131380@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>

    In exchange for this additional complexity it is more efficient in finding bugs than fuzzers that blindly generate inputs with rand.

    2015 December 4, Dmitry Vyukov, “RFC: upstreaming fuzzing coverage support”, in linux-kernel mailing list, message-ID <CACT4Y+Y7qjRCnwUZc60ZOvXyQTrV+o7mToEUgh5hzKVFc48PnA@mail.gmail.com>

Origin

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APA

fuzzer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fuzzer

MLA

“fuzzer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fuzzer. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fuzzer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fuzzer.

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