[dundee] GDB Config file

[Nicholas Walker]

I've just started getting the hang of GDB and i'm falling in love with it. I
needed to find a function called PassThrough() in memory and the address it
started at:


gdb locate PassThrough

and it returns the memory... no messing about :)

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Glad you solved the problem, Back in AIX unix land, I used to use something
> called xdb, it was awesome, and you could almost do anything and stay in
> xwindows
> too!!! (i.e, it was spread over three 21inch monitors) I could bust any bug
> when I had
> that setup...
>
> it's that cool, I don't think you can get it for gnu/linux, cloest thing I
> saw was
> ddd
>
> but it's nowhere as good a xdb
>
> shame..
>
> Cheers,
> Lee
>
>
> --- On *Mon, 16/3/09, Nicholas Walker <tel0seh at googlemail.com>* wrote:
>
> From: Nicholas Walker <tel0seh at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [dundee] GDB Config file
> To: dundee at lists.lug.org.uk
> Date: Monday, 16 March, 2009, 2:35 AM
>
>
> Nevermind, after two hours of piping locate through grep with random
> keywords, i found a .gdbinit command in /root/ on DVL strychnine. copied it
> to my ubuntu install, and it worked a treat. :)
>
> This is one of those situations where unless you know what you're looking
> for, googling really doesnt help :(
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Nicholas Walker <tel0seh at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hey guys, I'm currently working on a buffer overflow whitepaper for uni,
>> and I'm having some trouble with GDB. I can get it to do what I want,
>> however I've seen GDB configured in such a way that information is presented
>> much easier.
>>
>>
>> Standard ubuntu/debian derivatives dont present the information in a great
>> way thats easy to read, however using DVL-strychnine (a live disk based on
>> Backtrack for practicing exploits) , data is presented in a great way. would
>> anyone have any idea how to get the GDB on my Virtual ubuntu system, look
>> like the GDB on my strychnine system?
>>
>> Screenshots of the difference attatched.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Nick Walker
>> Vice President : The Linux Society
>> UAD Ethical Hacker
>>
>
>
>
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>
>
> Nick Walker
> Vice President : The Linux Society
> UAD Ethical Hacker
>
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Nick Walker
Vice President : The Linux Society
UAD Ethical Hacker
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