Making our own executable packer complete

18 articles 546 minute read os · linux · rust · assembly

In this series, we'll attempt to understand how Linux executables are organized, how they are executed, and how to make a program that takes an executable fresh off the linker and compresses it - just because we can.

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Series overview

1. What's in a Linux executable?

Jan 12, 2020

21 minute read

os · assembly · linux · rust

2. Running an executable without exec

Jan 12, 2020

24 minute read

os · assembly · linux · rust

3. Position-independent code

Jan 13, 2020

24 minute read

os · assembly · linux · rust

4. ELF relocations

Jan 19, 2020

18 minute read

os · assembly · linux · rust · linkers

5. The simplest shared library

Jan 22, 2020

26 minute read

os · assembly · linux · rust · linkers

6. Loading multiple ELF objects

Jan 26, 2020

30 minute read

os · assembly · linux · rust · linkers

7. Dynamic symbol resolution

Feb 02, 2020

27 minute read

os · assembly · linux · rust · linkers

8. Dynamic linker speed and correctness

Feb 14, 2020

27 minute read

os · assembly · linux

9. GDB scripting and Indirect functions

Feb 27, 2020

51 minute read

rust · gdb · nom

10. Safer memory-mapped structures

Mar 03, 2020

24 minute read

rust

11. More ELF relocations

Apr 06, 2020

24 minute read

os · assembly · linux · rust

12. A no_std Rust binary

Apr 13, 2020

29 minute read

os · assembly · linux · rust · no_std

13. Thread-local storage

Apr 26, 2020

44 minute read

os · assembly · linux · rust · no_std

14. In the bowels of glibc

Feb 08, 2021

46 minute read