Research Article

GSA-Fuzz: Optimize Seed Mutation with Gravitational Search Algorithm

Table 4

The average of three evaluation metrics on 10 target programs.

TargetsPaths/unique crashesLine coverage
AFLMOPT-AFLEcoFuzzGSA-FuzzAFL (%)MOPT-AFL (%)EcoFuzz (%)GSA-Fuzz (%)

cxxfilt6,709/07,742/0/5,674/08,498/018.6118.7518.6322.44
infotocap2,851/04,794/04,759/05,458/04.945.185.275.28
libpng1,180/01,584/01,563/01,807/068.0269.0468.3068.66
nm3,344/011,813/011,740/011,488/040.6241.8241.0641.54
objdump3,544/03,308/06,260/013,219/042.041.841.945.8
openssl1,357/01,755/01,867/02,027/023.6024.2524.1624.53
pdfimages5,851/26,801/342,16/413,588/617.8516.9215.5821.33
pdftotext5,842/26,023/23,647/213,689/519.1419.0017.9221.42
sass7,150/018,216/211,211/021,881/443.8951.1541.2851.76
tcpdump4,330/010,413/011,266/011,822/015.9926.6023.4327.05