afl-cmin(8)

afl-cmin(8) System Manager's Manual afl-cmin(8)

NAME

afl-cmin

SYNOPSIS

afl-cmin [ options ] -- /path/to/target_app [ ... ]

OPTIONS

Required parameters:

-i dir - input directory with the starting corpus (can be used multiple times)
-o dir - output directory for minimized files Execution control settings:
-f file - location read by the fuzzed program (stdin)
-m megs - memory limit for child process (default: none)
-t msec - timeout for each run (default: 5000ms)
-O - use binary-only instrumentation (FRIDA mode)
-Q - use binary-only instrumentation (QEMU mode)
-W - use binary-only instrumentation (WINE mode)
-U - use unicorn-based instrumentation (Unicorn mode)
-X - use Nyx mode Minimization settings:
--crash-dir=dir - move crashes to a separate dir, always deduplicated
-A - allow crashes and timeouts (not recommended)
-C - keep crashing inputs, reject everything else
-e - solve for edge coverage only, ignore hit counts Misc:
-T workers - number of execution and of update workers, or
exec:update for both counts separately, or 'all'
(default: 1)
--as_queue - name output files "id:000000,orig:filename", or
"id:000000,hash:sha1" with AFL_SHA1_FILENAMES
--no-dedup - skip deduplication step for corpus files
--debug - debug mode Metadata of an afl-fuzz output directory (fuzzer_stats, plot_data, ...) is never used as an input, its queue/, crashes/ and hangs/ are. Only the first 1048576 bytes of an input are given to the target. The exit status is 0 on success and 1 on any error, including a run in which no input matched the requested crash/timeout policy. afl-cmin honors the 'AFL_MAP_SIZE' and 'AFL_SHA1_FILENAMES' environment variables. For additional help, consult /usr/share/doc/afl/README.md.

AUTHOR

AFL++ was written by Michal "lcamtuf" Zalewski and is maintained by Marc "van Hauser" Heuse <mh@mh-sec.de>, Dominik Maier <domenukk@gmail.com>, Andrea Fioraldi <andreafioraldi@gmail.com> and Heiko "hexcoder-" Eissfeldt <heiko.eissfeldt@hexco.de> The homepage of AFL++ is: https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus

LICENSE

AFL++ is licensed under AGPL-3.0-or-later, with original components under Apache-2.0; an optional commercial license is available. See https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus/blob/stable/LICENSING.md

2026-09-03 AFL++