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Adding debug symbols with GDB
In CTFs when I'm given some ELF file, it usually wasn't compiled with the -g flag. Is there a way to to somehow edit the file to make it be as if the ELF file was originally compiled with the -g flag?
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How to SUCCESSFULLY add a code section to an executable file in Linux?
I am in Linux, and I have seen this question a few times but never, nobody answered how to really make this work.
I need to add a section to an already compiled binary. Lets say for a moment is an ...
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Can mprotect set the stack itself as executable?
I'm taking my first steps in memory exploitation in Linux. I'm following a tutorial for a practice VM($ uname -r -> 3.13.0-32-generic)
The tutorial makes a call to mprotect to set a certain region ...
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How should I go about trying to figure out the programming language that was used?
I have an executable file and I would like to figure out which programming language was the source code written in. The first step would be to use a disassembler.
What should be done after that ?
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How do I add functionality to an existing binary executable?
I want to add some functionality to an existing binary file. The binary file was created using gcc.
Do I need to decompile the binary first, even though I sufficiently understand the functioning of ...
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