> Fuzzing is an incredibly useful technique for finding bugs in a codebase

Very much so. Even really common code has issues found via fuzzing on a regular basis. In the past six months I've reported NULL pointer deferences printing fingerprints of SSH keys, segfaults in the GNU awk parser, and most recently segfaults when parsing HTML files with w3m.

Most of the time setting up fuzzing is pretty simple, but even updating programs to read from STDIN rather than sockets is usually possible if you're careful and patient.

The hardest part is waiting for the damn things to run. Right now I've had a fuzzing session going against the text-based browser lynx for 4 days, and still counting. (Specifically looking to see if it can be crashed when converting HTML to text, as is often done in mutt, etc, via 'lynx -dump').