Questions tagged [interposing]
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Is it possible to override static functions in an object module (gcc, ld, x86, objcopy)?
Is there a way to override functions with static scope
within an object module?
If I start with something like this, a module
with global symbol "foo" is a function that calls
local symbol "bar," that calls local symbol "baz"
[scameron@localhost…

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Why won't LD_PRELOAD work with Python?
Using function interposition for open() with Python doesn't seem to work after the first few calls. I suspect Python is doing some kind of initialization, or something is temporarily bypassing my function.
Here the open call is clearly hooked:
$ cat…

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Interposing of OS X system calls
I need to interpose (get my functions called instead of the original functions) some OS X system calls to overcome a flaw in a piece of closed-source software.
Preferably, the resulting solution would work under 10.5 (Leopard) and newer, but I might…

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Stack Smashing in Java Interposer
I am writing a Java interposer to modify network communication related system calls. Basically, I want to modify the IP and port of the intended recipient.
The code works correctly on my laptop, but on university PC, it gives a stack smashing error…

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Interposing on OSX, my function not being called
So, I'm messing around with some interposing code on OSX (gcc 4.2.1) and I'm trying to get the following to work:
When I call ./login using the DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=my.dylib, it should override the default login implementation and use my custom…

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Can OS X system calls be overridden or interposed on a system-wide basis?
Working under OS X Lion, I've done some work with code injection to interpose system calls on a process-by-process basis recently.
I've learned a lot along the way, and it now looks like it would make more sense, at least for research purposes, to…

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Interposing on Java Class Methods (without interfaces)
I'd like to interpose between class methods to dynamically extends an object.
I already know about the java.lang.reflect.Proxy stuff, but it's way too limited to do real interposing.
From Using java.lang.reflect.Proxy to Interpose on Java Class…

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How can I get the PID of a new process before it executes?
So that I can do some injecting and interposing using the inject_and_interpose code, I need to way to get the PID of a newly-launched process (a typical closed-source user application) before it actually executes.
To be clear, I need to do better…

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Safari and getaddrinfo interposing
I've written a small dynamic library that interposes calls to getaddrinfo and connect. I insert this library using DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES on Firefox and Safari to hijack requests for www.apple.com and send them to www.microsoft.com. The code works…

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Reason for my interposer classes not being compiled?
I have:
unit unt_QuantumGridInterceptor;
{$OPTIMIZATION OFF}
interface
uses
{ DevExpress }
cxGridRows,
cxGridTableView,
cxGridCustomTableView,
cxCustomData,
cxGraphics;
type
TcxGridDataCellViewInfo =…

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Override global function like fopen/ofstream
I want to know what file is opened and in what mode and for this I want to override the global functions like fopen/ofstream and other file handling function
Required:
FILE* fopen(filename, mode){ //Our own fopen
printf("%s-%s",filename,…

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Interposing code into an existing apk
Is it possible, given an existing apk, to interpose method calls? What about arbitrary lines of code?
Ideally I would like to be able to intercept a method call/line of code and call my own method to do some checks or logging and then let the…

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Library insertion/injection not work with open command
I writed a dynamic library that loaded into target application by environment variable DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES, the dylib works fine when application executed from terminal by this commands:
$ export DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=/path/to/mylib.dylib
$…

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