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mpakes | 14 years ago

Return-to-libc (a.k.a. ret2libc) is usually used to bypass NX-bit / DEP, but NX was disabled for level04 - the solution does not require return-to-libc.

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icebraining|14 years ago

But it did have ASLR enabled, right? I didn't get how to bypass that without ret2libc.

I think I'll try again tomorrow morning and see what I missed.

rzhou|14 years ago

On 32-bit machines, you can disable mmap randomization (and thus library randomization) using ulimit -s unlimited.

Also, there's another useful place you can return to that isn't in libc.

mpakes|14 years ago

ASLR is enabled, yes.

ASLR actually makes ret2libc much more difficult to pull off (esp. on 64-bit platforms), because the location of libc.so itself is randomized.