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What is actually loaded here and different hexdump outputs on util-linux hexdump and on cutter and ghidra's hexdump
I was trying to understand what segment of file gets loaded by fourth LOAD header on phdr array.
First 6 headers are shown below from readelf
Program Headers:
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My core dump's backtrace stops to a signal handler, what can I do?
I obtained an ELF core dump that was provoked by fuzzing a proprietary server. As I do not have access anymore to the machine that hosted this server, and the server is part of a tightly coupled set ...
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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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Recognize the library functions of statically linked executable file in IDA Pro
Recently I worked on a Linux program which has all of its symbols stripped. Opening it with IDA resulted in none of its functions identified.
Thus I tried to extract any usable information from the ...
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Which python library for parsing Linux ELF files?
I want to be able to parse 32 and 64 bit ELF files - but not create or modify them (e.g. as discussed in this thread). The ELF binaries may possibly come from embedded Linux systems, that is, the ...
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Why are GOT and PLT still present in Linux static stripped binaries?
I am looking at statically linked linux x86 stripped binary. I noticed that there are .got and .plt sections.
I wonder what does a statically linked binary need got and plt sections for ? Anyone ?
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