Re: problem in bypassing stack randomization ("call *%edx" technique)

Modifying edx is theoretically possible via push/pop instructions..
But finding the needed opcode combination in linux-gate.so.1 is
(unfortunately) not possible.

$ ./got_opcode "pop edx" "call .edx"
[*] Searching for sequence 5a ff 12
[*] No matching opcodes were found in kernel.



On 20 Sep 2006 16:03:14 -0000, purelysp4m@xxxxxxxxxxx
<purelysp4m@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The technique is explained in greater detail at http://milw0rm.org/papers/55 , but unfortunately it only talks about JMP *%esp


By playing around a bit, it looks like %edx always points to the command-line argument after the one you pass to strcpy(). That is, if you do strcpy(vuln,argv[73]), %edx will point to argv[74].

If you use strncpy, no registers will point to any of your command-line arguments.


It is, to my knowledge, not possible to directly edit %edx. I'd suggest using gdb to find the contents of the registers when the program crashes, and then figure out how to control the data at one of those locations :)