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Undocumented machine-specific registers (AMD)

Posted: 15th November 2010 by sharpe in Reverse Code Engineering
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I was recently turned on to a couple of interesting write-ups regarding some of the secret debugging capabilities (..included firmware-based debugging features that expand greatly over standard, architecturally defined capabilities of x86.) of AMD processors, >= Athlon XP. For further information, please consult the following articles: woodmann CBID Enjoy!

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Finding, Exploiting and Fixing Bugs in Binaries

Posted: 30th March 2009 by sharpe in Reverse Code Engineering
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I had been using Code Crafter’s Ability Server for some time when a colleague brought to my attention, the fact that there was a remotely exploitable vulnerability in precisely the version I was using. After a short conversation with a friend regarding the vulnerability, I decided to delve a little deeper in an attempt to [...]

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