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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:08:21 +0100
From: Jonathan Salwan <jonathan.salwan@...il.com>
To: sgrubb@...hat.com
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>, Jeff Law <law@...hat.com>,
Bernd Schmidt <bschmidt@...hat.com>, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: Fwd: x86 ROP mitigation
Hey Steve,
> What I found was that the list of libraries or programs that ROPgadget could
> build a chain for is fairly small. I thought about reasons why that might be
> the case and then considered that maybe if the gadgets from several libraries
> were combined, maybe it would find more.
The build chain of ROPgadget is pretty "stupid", we search a series of
patterns [1] which would allow us to build our payload. If these
patterns are not present we don't build the payload. Then, we don't
search through others libraries. That's why you got a small list. The
best way to build a ROP-chain automatically, is to build the chain
from the instruction semantics (take a look from slide 53 to 62 of
this lecture [2]).
> But I think ASLR would make too many
> moving parts for that to be practical. If you use a whole library or
> application, then everything moves together up or down as a unit to the new
> offset.
If you find the base address from the plt/got you win. Florian
Gaultier proved that it was possible [3].
> Another thought in explaining why the list was so small is that the quality of
> the chaining that ROPgadget has needs a lot of improvement.
So true :).
[1] https://goo.gl/faO3VC
[2] http://goo.gl/ttpr5S
[3] http://goo.gl/kDTa1A
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