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The Impact of Magma: A Ground-Truth Fuzzing Benchmark

Magma's ground-truth fuzzing benchmark offers a standardised comparison framework — security research teams selecting fuzzers should adopt it to avoid misleading tool evaluations.

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arXiv:2608.28016v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Magma is an open-source and ground-truth fuzzing benchmark that enables uniform fuzzer evaluation and comparison. Magma was originally released with a research paper published at ACM SIGMETRICS 2021. This short paper explains the motivation, the design, and the impact of Magma, with a description of extensions to the original benchmark.

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Why it matters

Without standardised benchmarks, fuzzer evaluations produce incomparable results, leading to suboptimal tooling decisions in vulnerability-research programmes.

What to do

Integrate Magma benchmarks into your fuzzer evaluation process to ensure fair and reproducible comparisons.

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