Questions tagged [rop]
Return-oriented programming (ROP) is a computer security exploit technique that allows an attacker to execute code in the presence of security defenses such as executable space protection and code signing.
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Jump-Oriented Programming: Why is it better/easier to jump to the dispatcher gadget than to jump from one functional gadget directly to another?
Jump-oriented Programming: Why is it better/easier to jump to the dispatcher gadget than to jump from one functional gadget directly to another functional gadget?
My understanding of JOP:
In jump-...
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Jump-Oriented Programming: Harder than ROP because the registers need to be prepared individually? + Turing complete, but large overhead/slow?
Full title: Jump-Oriented Programming: Is it harder than traditional return-oriented programming because you need to manually prepare all the addresses and registers or is there a different reason?
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Bash deletes null bytes in exploit input for ROP/returntolibc
I am trying to do a returntolibc exploit. The goal is to gain a shell with root privilege by calling setuid(0) and then system("/bin/sh"). I have been agonizing over trying to get this thing ...
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push /bin/sh to get a shell
I usually use a different method to push /bin/sh in rdi to get a shell, but I wanted to try this one :
Put in case that I can control the RIP and there are no limitations or filters. So I can execute ...
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Intel CET more secure than AMD Shadow Stack?
I'm trying to decide between AMD or Intel for a new build. I was reading about protection from ROP-attacks and it seems like Intel and AMD are handling this in different ways.
AMD Zen 3 and later ...
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64-bit ROP-based Buffer Overflow Attack
I am facing a CTF challenge in which I have to conduct an attack using a ROP chain on this program below:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <sys/...
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Buffer Overflow with ROP Chain Output Problem
I have the following problem: I have this C program and I have done buffer overflow using ROP gadgets. I have a problem with the output.
I want to stop the printf() call in the vuln function to get ...
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ROP - ret VS ret 0
I'm doing a binary challenge from pwnable.kr and I'm examining a some ROP gadget.
Until now I've always used gadget ending with ret or syscall/int 0x80, but now ROPgadget gave me a gadget ending with ...
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Rop: Handling a `push` in the middle of a gadget
In rop, often a gadget has an undesired pop or push in the middle.
For a pop, we handle this simply by adding a dummy value to our chain: it is popped, and all is well.
What about a push: What do we ...
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How can I build ROP chains on 64 bits if my payload is copied through strcpy? [duplicate]
It seems 64 bits adresses must end in two null bytes. But strcpy will copy only one null byte in the entire payload.
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ROP executes system("/bin/sh") but does not attach to it
Here is the code:
import struct
buf = ""
buf += "A" * 552
buf += struct.pack('<Q', 0x401493) # pop rdi; ret
buf += struct.pack('<Q', 0x7ffff7f79152) # /bin/sh
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Question about RTL (or ROP) chaining order
I'm confused now about how the order is set up for the ROP chain.
Let's say we'd like to make a chain below
in C:
open("myfile", O_RDONLY);
read(3, buf, 100);
in payload:
p32(OPEN_ADDR)
p32(...
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Segfault after reaching system
I'm doing a pretty bog-standard return-to-libc attack and I'm in a bit of a pickle.
I first got the entire attack working with my local version of libc, then I used the version of libc provided by the ...
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How do attackers determine ROP gadgets remotely?
Being gadgets change per each system and architecture (do they?), how would an attacker be able to determine the offsets of various Return Oriented Programming gadgets, would an attacker first need to ...
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is it possible to call libc function with rop
let say hacker want to come over the aslr or he want to call function that doesn't exists in user program ,can he insert to the return address address to the share library function or this functions ...
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Understanding ret2libc return address location
I recently was studying x86 buffer overflows + ret2libc attacks from https://www.ret2rop.com/2018/08/return-to-libc.html and I noticed the order is as follows:
bytes to fill buffer + address of system ...
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ROP on MIPS Doesn't Land Where Calculated
I am working on exploiting an application on MIPS to further my knowledge of ROP chaining. The library I am trying to build a ROP chain is libuClibc-0.9.30.3.so. I found a gadget that I want to use ...
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Is it possible to use ROP to call legitimate functions even if the stack is not executable?
I read about the hardware protection that blocks the CPU from jumping to stack address. But hacker may still edit the return address to an address in code memory that shouldn't run at that moment.
For ...
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ROP execute a shell with execl() - /bin/sh: 0: Can't open
A vulnerable C program to stack buffer overflow, requires 112 byte stuffing to get to return address of the calling function. Here the Strcpy() is the vulnerable function.
void f(char *name){
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ROP gadget for setuid(zero) - writing argument zero into the stack
Having a program vulnerable to stack based buffer overflow with setuid bit set, and want to fill the buffer with ROP gadgets.
If setuid(0) is needed to spawn a shell with root privilege, then '0' ...
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segmentation fault at strcpy while perforforming a buffer overflow
I have this code that I need to use to perform a ret2libc
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
char buf[256];
printf("buff is at:%p\n",buf);
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How to use "jmp" in ROP
I'm trying to put together a ROP chain. I'm looking for a gadget to do the following:
mov rdi, rdx ; mov rbp, rsp ; ret;
But instead, I have a gadget like this :
mov rdi, rdx ; mov rbp, rsp ; ...
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Kernel ROP crashes running OS
I was experimenting to see if I can make an ROP chain within the kernel. In the kernel debugging mode, I can make the first jump to an arbitrary gadget address without any problem. But the problem ...
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Cannot build a ROP chain
My ROP exploit crashes with segmentation fault for unknown reason.
This is a vulnerable code (compiled via command gcc h2.c -no-pie -fno-stack-protector -m32 -o h2):
#include <stdio.h>
#include &...
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Remote Buffer Overflow w/out Memory Leak
I'm working on an exploit development challenge right now in which I've been presented with a compiled binary and I have to exploit it on a remote server. No stack protections have been enabled and ...
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puts(address of stack) does not print the string pointed by the address
I am trying to do ROP using gadget chaining technique on a 64-bit machine.
This is the source code:
#include<stdio.h>
int main(){
char * str = "Hello World!";
char buf[4];
puts(str)...
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Is JIT-compiler required for JIT-ROP attack?
I have been studying up on the concept of Just-in-Time (JIT) ROP attack (https://cs.unc.edu/~fabian/papers/oakland2013.pdf), and came across this question which I have not been able to find the ...
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Where in a binary can '/bin/sh' be written to get a shell?
I've come across some behaviour in a CTF challenge that seems very strange and I was wondering if someone could help me understand it.
The CTF challenge was the can-you-gets-me challenge in ...
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Return-oriented programming: Address of system() contains NULL byte
Disclaimer: I am asking this question solely for educational purposes.
I am trying to chain some function calls using return-oriented programming, exploiting a vulnerable binary which uses strcpy(). ...
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How to find address of system() in an executable - ROP exploit
I'm trying to find the address of system() in a code repo that I'm trying to exploit using Return Oriented Programming (for a course project). The code has included stdlib.h but it has not used system(...
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Why ret2libc is not working in the below code on x86_64?
I am trying to bypass DEP in x86_64 (64 bit - ASLR OFF). I have my own vulnerable code and I have also written an exploit code with a basic ROP to jump into system() with parameter "/bin/sh",...
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Dealing with NULL byte (0x00) in offsets
I'm trying to exploit a strcpy() buffer overflow vulnerability to test ROP attack. I found a very useful gadget at address 0x0000f26c so I am obliged to insert null bytes to the stack to override the ...
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ROP Attack :Force the program to manipulate an instruction as a gadget
I'm doing basic exploitation test on a simple program with fiew lines of code. I intend to exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability to perform a ROP attack.
To gather the available gadgets I use ...
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Stack location range on linux for user process
In Linux, with ASLR enabled, is there a range of addresses where user stack address lies? What about heap, instruction addresses(text section)? In general, is it possible to look at an address and ...
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How does GCC's -mmitigate-rop work?
GCC 6 has a flag, -mmitigate-rop, which compiles binaries in a way that reduces the number gadgets exploitable by ROP. The GCC documentation explaining this feature is minimal:
-mmitigate-rop
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