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How to debug armel and armhf binaries on x86-64 Ubuntu simultaneously?

I'm working on the challenges on ROP Emporium. For the ARMv5 version of the callme challenge, we are given two binaries and two shared libraries: callme_armv5 with libcallme_armv5.so and callme_armv5-...
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JEB pro is not showing xrefs for native code (arm)

i have this problem when analyzing arm shared object. when working with IDA pro, it finds all xrefs but in jeb, most of xrefs are missing. when JEB finfishes, the final analysis lacks most of xrefs. I ...
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What is the best emulator/environment for android debugging?

I know the question smells like I want a ready solution but I have been trying many things and after a lot of headaches, still I can't do what I want. There are fast emulators but they don't provide ...
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Gdb hardware watchpoint error on android

After failing to find a solution to this I have started using Gdb and have encountered another error. Gdbfails to set hardware watchpoint when I'm remote debugging a rooted arm7-a target. It supports ...
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LLDB debugging on android?

I currently don't have a pc. I have two rooted devices Arm64 host device with Debian rootfs and the device to be debugged which contains the lldb-server binary armv7. I am trying to remote debug my ...
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How to resolve illegal instruction for this ARM stack exploitation?

Summary I am trying to write a stack overflow exploit for ARM Cortex-A72 running Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit). Because of my choice of OS, I am restricted to the ARMv7 (32-bit) instruction set. I have ...
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Debug bFLT in qemu-arm-static

I have bFLT binary (into linux-arm arch.) that I can run with qemu-arm-static . I want to debug that binary dynamically with GDB. I know I can debug binary with qemu like qemu-arm-static -g 1111 <...
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Instruction trace using frida in android emulator

i have a emulator named "Ldplayer" in my windows os and I'm trying to log all instructions executed by the app that uses ARM JNI libraries. basically, the app is running in an x86 emulator ...
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Reverse engineering MCU with "poor" datasheet

I'm reverse engineering a chinese MCU. The datasheet for this chip is pretty poor, they left out important things like memory map, block diagrams ecc... so i got stuck. This is what i've done: I got ...
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ARM system crashes after changing stack address

-- Edit with latest update on the problem, it is not solved yet :( -- While playing with an ARM embedded Linux system (Version 3.8.13), out of curiosity, I created a small "debug" kernel module. ...
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ARM debugging interesting behavior

I was just disassembling and debugging an ARM binary for fun and I noticed something unusual. Consider the following set of instructions:- 0x00008058 <+4>: mov r1, pc 0x0000805c <+8>...
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GDB via JTAG on ARM Hardware target without source code

Does anyone have other solutions for connecting to a remote ARM target without IDA? This is the question and below I give examples of setup's i have tried, should anyone be interested. Update: ...
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