PEDA - Python Exploit Development Assistance for GDB

• Enhance the display of gdb: colorize and display disassembly codes, registers, memory information during debugging.
• Add commands to support debugging and exploit development (for a full list of commands use peda help):
  • aslr -- Show/set ASLR setting of GDB
  • checksec -- Check for various security options of binary
  • dumpargs -- Display arguments passed to a function when stopped at a call instruction
  • dumprop -- Dump all ROP gadgets in specific memory range
  • elfheader -- Get headers information from debugged ELF file
  • elfsymbol -- Get non-debugging symbol information from an ELF file
  • lookup -- Search for all addresses/references to addresses which belong to a memory range
  • patch -- Patch memory start at an address with string/hexstring/int
  • pattern -- Generate, search, or write a cyclic pattern to memory
  • procinfo -- Display various info from /proc/pid/
  • pshow -- Show various PEDA options and other settings
  • pset -- Set various PEDA options and other settings
  • readelf -- Get headers information from an ELF file
  • ropgadget -- Get common ROP gadgets of binary or library
  • ropsearch -- Search for ROP gadgets in memory
  • searchmem|find -- Search for a pattern in memory; support regex search
  • shellcode -- Generate or download common shellcodes.
  • skeleton -- Generate python exploit code template
  • vmmap -- Get virtual mapping address ranges of section(s) in debugged process
  • xormem -- XOR a memory region with a key

git clone https://github.com/xxc3nsoredxx/peda ~/peda
echo "source ~/peda/peda.py" >> ~/.gdbinit
echo "DONE! debug your program with gdb and enjoy"

The only differences between this repo and upstream are related to this README.md, git tags, and the method of execution (if installed through Portage). The master from upstream will always be merged unmodified into the upstream-master branch.

Before installing, enable the unc3nsored overlay.

emerge -av sys-devel/peda

To debug a program with PEDA, run:

peda <gdb args> <program to debug>

Add any PEDA-specific .gdbinit lines into ~/.pedainit

Version numbers are <upstream>_pYYYYMMDD based on the date of the latest upstream commit included in the tag (US/Central time zone).