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-_Fuzzing_ is the act of generating random input to be fed to programs to try to flush out bugs in them. Something that often works better than completely random input is input that is almost , but not quite , what the program expects
+_Fuzzing_ is the act of generating random input to be fed to programs to try to flush out bugs in them. In theory, programs should reject all invalid input with suitable error messages , but sometimes there are holes in their validation checks, which means that certain inputs can produce odd , unintended behaviours or crashes
  
 Some fuzzing tools are: 
  
 * [zzuf|http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/zzuf], a sort of “man-in-the-middle” fuzzer