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Some Android reverse-engineering tools
I’ve spent a lot of time this last week staring at decompiled Dalvik assembly. In the process, I created a couple of useful tools that I figure are worth sharing. I’ve been using dedexer instead of baksmali, honestly mainly because the former’s output has fewer blank lines and so is more readable on my netbook’s [...]
Dec 27th, 2010 | Filed under Low-level hacking -
CVE-2010-4258: Turning denial-of-service into privilege escalation
Dan Rosenberg recently released a privilege escalation bug for Linux, based on three different kernel vulnerabilities I reported recently. This post is about CVE-2010-4258, the most interesting of them, and, as Dan writes, the reason he wrote the exploit in the first place. In it, I’m going to do a brief tour of the various [...]
Dec 10th, 2010 | Filed under Computer Security, linux