FuzzMan - Manpages based fuzzer

This article is to introduce a (probably) new fuzzing idea (FuzzMan) that is built around man pages. Many know that in *nix systems if you type man command you will get a manual page informing you on how to use a specific tool. So by just looking at the manual you can find out pretty much in seconds what type of argument and what options are offered by any given command.

The format which man pages follow is universal (mostly), so it is not very difficult to make a script and extract the offered options - which is exactly what gave me the idea of making a tool that can generate fuzzing data based on manual pages. Based on that concept we can fuzz as accurately as possible any command that has a man page.