• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.541-548
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• 2017

The smartphone operates the media server daemon to handle audio service requests. Media server daemons, running with a high privilege in the background, caused many vulnerabilities to applications most frequently used in smart devices including smartphones. Fuzzing is a popularly used methodology to find software vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, fuzzing itself is not much effective in such format-strict environments as media services. In this paper, we propose a file format-aware fuzzing in order to efficiently detect vulnerabilities of media server daemon. We acquired a remote arbitrary code execution vulnerability on iOS/tvOS/MacOS/watchOS, and we verified the effectiveness by comparing our methodology with the fuzzers FileFuzz and ZZUF.