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A framework for automated architecture-independent gadget search

Type
Video
Tags
hacking
Event
Chaos Communication Congress 27th (27C3) 2010
Indexed on
Mar 27, 2013
URL
http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-4168-en-automated_architecture_independent_gadget_search.mp4
File name
27c3-4168-en-automated_architecture_independent_gadget_search.mp4
File size
424.9 MB
MD5
069ac0e0f4d71a977eea4482f5f3983e
SHA1
e233bcab08729589e88fd78b7a997eaa739559f4

We demonstrate that automated, architecture-independent gadget search is possible. Gadgets are code fragments which can be used to build unintended programs from existing code in memory. Our contribution is a framework of algorithms capable of locating a Turing-complete gadget set. Translating machine code into an intermediate language allows our framework to be used for many different CPU architectures with minimal architecture-dependent adjustments. We define the paradigm of free-branch instructions to succinctly capture which gadgets will be found by our framework and investigate side effects of the gadgets produced. Furthermore we discuss architectural idiosyncrasies for several widely spread CPU architectures and how they need to be taken into account by the generic algorithms when locating gadgets.

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