FuzzBench: 2024-08-17-empty-seeds-2 report

experiment summary

We show two different aggregate (cross-benchmark) rankings of fuzzers. The first is based on the average of per-benchmarks scores, where the score represents the percentage of the highest reached median code-coverage on a given benchmark (higher value is better). The second ranking shows the average rank of fuzzers, after we rank them on each benchmark according to their median reached code-covereges (lower value is better).

By avg. score

	average normalized score
fuzzer
libfuzzer_empty_seeds	95.31
aflplusplus_empty_seeds	93.07
afl_empty_seeds	77.90
honggfuzz_empty_seeds	76.43

By avg. rank

	average rank
fuzzer
aflplusplus_empty_seeds	1.43
libfuzzer_empty_seeds	2.10
honggfuzz_empty_seeds	2.52
afl_empty_seeds	3.33

Critical difference diagram

The diagram visualizes the average rank of fuzzers (second ranking above) while showing the significance of the differences as well. What is considered a "critical difference" (CD) is based on the Friedman/Nemenyi post-hoc test. See more in the documentation.

Note: If a fuzzer does not support all benchmarks, its ranking as shown in this diagram can be lower than it should be. So please check the list of supported benchmarks for the fuzzer(s) of your interest. The list could be specified in the fuzzer's README.md like this.

Median relative code-coverages on each benchmark

Note: The relative coverage summary table shows the median relative performance of each fuzzer to the experiment maximum. Thus the highest relative performance may not be 100%.
trial_relative_coverage = trial_coverage / experiment_max_coverage

	aflplusplus_empty_seeds	libfuzzer_empty_seeds	honggfuzz_empty_seeds	afl_empty_seeds
FuzzerMedian	98.50	96.00	97.00	90.00
FuzzerMean	95.80	93.19	93.00	76.33
bloaty_fuzz_target	99.00	98.00	97.00	96.00
curl_curl_fuzzer_http	97.00	96.00	97.00	94.00
freetype2_ftfuzzer	97.00	74.00	82.00	72.00
harfbuzz_hb-shape-fuzzer	99.00	92.00	94.00	90.00
jsoncpp_jsoncpp_fuzzer	99.00	99.00	97.00	98.00
lcms_cms_transform_fuzzer	99.00	91.00	98.00	5.00
libjpeg-turbo_libjpeg_turbo_fuzzer	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
libpcap_fuzz_both	78.00	91.00	nan	1.00
libpng_libpng_read_fuzzer	nan	97.00	83.00	72.00
libxml2_xml	99.00	95.00	nan	85.00
libxslt_xpath	99.00	94.00	nan	89.00
mbedtls_fuzz_dtlsclient	98.00	97.00	99.00	96.00
openssl_x509	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
openthread_ot-ip6-send-fuzzer	98.00	97.00	91.00	91.00
proj4_proj_crs_to_crs_fuzzer	84.00	78.00	97.00	14.00
re2_fuzzer	99.00	98.00	91.00	98.00
sqlite3_ossfuzz	98.00	75.00	76.00	76.00
systemd_fuzz-link-parser	98.00	96.00	96.00	95.00
vorbis_decode_fuzzer	84.00	92.00	nan	76.00
woff2_convert_woff2ttf_fuzzer	91.00	98.00	84.00	65.00
zlib_zlib_uncompress_fuzzer	100.00	99.00	99.00	90.00

Fuzzers are sorted by "FuzzerMean" (average median relative coverage), highest on the left.
Green background = highest relative median coverage.
Blue gradient background = greater than 95% relative median coverage.

bloaty_fuzz_target summary

Ranking by median reached code coverage

Mean code coverage growth over time

* The error bands show the 95% confidence interval around the mean code coverage.

Sample statistics and statistical significance (code coverage)

Code coverage sample statistics

		count	mean	std	min	25%	median	75%	max
fuzzer	time
aflplusplus_empty_seeds	1800	2.0	4515.5	2.121320	4514.0	4514.75	4515.5	4516.25	4517.0
libfuzzer_empty_seeds	1800	2.0	4461.5	6.363961	4457.0	4459.25	4461.5	4463.75	4466.0
honggfuzz_empty_seeds	1800	2.0	4411.5	0.707107	4411.0	4411.25	4411.5	4411.75	4412.0
afl_empty_seeds	1800	2.0	4364.0	0.000000	4364.0	4364.00	4364.0	4364.00	4364.0

Vargha-Delaney A12 measure

The table summarizes the A12 values from the pairwise Vargha-Delaney A measure of effect size. Green cells indicate the probability the fuzzer in the row will outperform the fuzzer in the column.

Mann-Whitney U test

The table summarizes the p values of pairwise Mann-Whitney U tests. Green cells indicate that the reached coverage distribution of a given fuzzer pair is significantly different.

Unique code coverage plots

Ranking by unique code branches covered
Each bar shows the total number of code branches found by a given fuzzer. The colored area shows the number of unique code branches (i.e., branches that were not covered by any other fuzzers).

Pairwise unique code coverage
Each cell represents the number of code branches covered by the fuzzer of the column but not by the fuzzer of the row

Code coverage reports for each fuzzer on this benchmark

afl_empty_seeds aflplusplus_empty_seeds honggfuzz_empty_seeds libfuzzer_empty_seeds