radareorg/radare2

Add command to generate coredump in MACH0 or ELF

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#4,124 opened on Feb 18, 2016

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Description

  • Generate ELF coredumps on Linux
  • Generate ELF coredumps on BSD
  • Load ELF coredumps
  • Generate MACH0 coredumps (linux/bsd)
  • Load mach0 coredumps
  • Support mach0 threads
  • load region names/filepaths

related https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/152

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Research direction
Study the existing coredump generation code in the ELF and Mach O formats, then implement the missing commands for ELF coredumps on BSD and Mach O thread support. Trace the loading and generation paths to understand the structure.
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c
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securitytooling
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Feature
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3
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Half day
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Active
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Clear
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CReverse Engineering basics
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60