Questions tagged [rop]
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ROP: System function not printing results to stdout
in oder to solve a CTF-Challenge I have to construct a small ROP-chain. The scope of the ROP chain is to print the content of the `flag` file. I already constructed the ROP-chain, but it seems that ...
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How does PIE mitigate exploits?
I read a tutorial where they compiled with the -no-pie option. Is it because the .text segment will be loaded at a random address, therefore making the address of gadgets founds inside it useless ?
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system doesn't invoke /bin/sh
I am learning libc shellcode attacks and trying to execute /bin/sh from system
I can execute other commands from system like whoami and ls -a but can not run /bin/sh
the following works
string = b&...
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xIP vs xSP vs xBP: How to choose the target?
We have 32bit & 64bit binaries, and in ROP (Return Oriented Programming), we sometimes target RSP/ESP, sometimes RIP/EIP, (maybe) sometimes RBP/EBP (I'm new to this, haven't seen RBP used yet). In ...
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RopGadget buffer overflow
I have a question,
I have a device that i can perform on it buffer overflow.
The problem is that is that there is an ASLR(on all addresses in /proc/binary/maps, but not on the binary itself, but all ...
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BufferOverflow - Cannot push a specific return address on the stack
I'm currently playing with buffer overflow and ROP-chains, and I'm facing a weird behavior that I don't know how to deal with.
I don't know why, but i cannot correctly push the address of my first ...
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ROP chain: Buffer Overflow Return Pointer
I am trying to get a ROP exploit to work on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64bit.
I have a 64 bit binary (Nx enabled, ASLR disabled) with vuln function as follows:
public vuln
vuln proc near
var_100= byte ptr -...
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How to reverse engineer a Black Box?
I am trying to reverse engineer / research a black box system, this is, a system for which there is no public information at all. Let's say the system is a modern handheld console.
I have already ...
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Can't trace MIPS embedded device remotely
I'm trying to debug a remote device using gdbserver and IDA Pro.
I'm attached to the correct PID and I'm able to step through instructions until the point where I redirect $pc to my ROP chain. At the ...
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Reverse engineering POST request body
I have a POST request that had spawned a PHP webshell. It has exploited the REST API vulnerability in WordPress versions 4.7.0 and 4.7.1. The body of the request is in binary (possibly gzip-compressed)...
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What is this protection that seems to prevent ROP when ASLR in ON?
I was doing some tests to train myself to ROP when ASLR is ON and NX is enabled.
I created this small program for testing purpose
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <...
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