During developing a dispatch table for some instructions in binaries, one of the challenging problem which I faced, was changing the registers state in a way that doesn’t affect the program flow! So it might seem simple at first glance but what makes it complex is that I can’t use relative jumps or relative calls because, in some situation, I might be far away from .text segment of my binary. It causes me to explore the solutions about far jumps…
Posts published in March 2018
After posting the first of my linux SysAdmin quick config sample series titled “Useful Configs for squid” (which you can read here). I decided to write another post, this time about the powerful and popular web/cache server NGINX! I spent quite some time reading through nginx official docs and other blogs/websites while testing each configuration directive in different scenarios. Some of the options presented in this post do not have good or any documentation. I hope you find them useful!…