My friend produced a small proof-of-concept assembler that worked on x86. I decided to port it for x86_64 as well, but I immediately hit a problem.
I wrote a small piece of program in C, then compiled and objdumped the code. After that I inserted it to my python script, therefore the x86_64 code is correct:
from ctypes import cast, CFUNCTYPE, c_char_p, c_long
buffer = ''.join(map(chr, [ #0000000000000000 <add>:
0x55, # push %rbp
0x48, 0x89, 0xe5, # mov %rsp,%rbp
0x48, 0x89, 0x7d, 0xf8, # mov %rdi,-0x8(%rbp)
0x48, 0x8b, 0x45, 0xf8, # mov -0x8(%rbp),%rax
0x48, 0x83, 0xc0, 0x0a, # add $0xa,%rax
0xc9, # leaveq
0xc3, # retq
]))
fptr = cast(c_char_p(buffer), CFUNCTYPE(c_long, c_long))
print fptr(1234)
Now, why does this script keeps doing segmentation fault whenever I run it?
I have yet a question about mprotect and no execution flag. It is said to protect against most basic security exploits like buffer overruns. But what is the real reason it's in use? You could just keep on writing until you hit the .text, then inject your instructions into a nice, PROT_EXEC -area. Unless, of course, you use a write protection in .text
But then, why have that PROT_EXEC everywhere anyway? Wouldn't it just help tremendously that your .text section is write protected?