I am trying to set a breakpoint on the entry point in a stripped ELF. The ELF was compiled and stripped on Virtual Box Linux Machine.
root@xxxx:~# readelf -e yyyy_not_patched
ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF64
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: DYN (Shared object file)
Machine: Advanced Micro Devices X86-64
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0x650
Start of program headers: 64 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 6792 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 64 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 56 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 9
Size of section headers: 64 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 31
Section header string table index: 30
Program Headers point to:
Program Headers:
Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr
FileSiz MemSiz Flags Align
PHDR 0x0000000000000040 0x0000000000000040 0x0000000000000040
0x00000000000001f8 0x00000000000001f8 R E 0x8
INTERP 0x0000000000000238 0x0000000000000238 0x0000000000000238
0x000000000000001c 0x000000000000001c R 0x1
[Requesting program interpreter: /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2]
LOAD 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
0x00000000000009ec 0x00000000000009ec R E 0x200000
LOAD 0x0000000000000dd8 0x0000000000200dd8 0x0000000000200dd8
0x0000000000000268 0x0000000000000278 RW 0x200000
DYNAMIC 0x0000000000000df0 0x0000000000200df0 0x0000000000200df0
0x00000000000001e0 0x00000000000001e0 RW 0x8
NOTE 0x0000000000000254 0x0000000000000254 0x0000000000000254
0x0000000000000044 0x0000000000000044 R 0x4
GNU_EH_FRAME 0x00000000000008a0 0x00000000000008a0 0x00000000000008a0
0x000000000000003c 0x000000000000003c R 0x4
GNU_STACK 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 RW 0x10
GNU_RELRO 0x0000000000000dd8 0x0000000000200dd8 0x0000000000200dd8
0x0000000000000228 0x0000000000000228 R 0x1
"
When setting a breakpoint in the GDB I am getting "Cannot access memory at address 0x650"
root@xxxx:~# gdb yyyy_not_patched
Reading symbols from login_not_patched...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) b *0x650
Breakpoint 1 at 0x650
(gdb) r
Starting program: /root/yyyy_not_patched
Warning:
Cannot insert breakpoint 1.
Cannot access memory at address 0x650
Any idea what could be the issue?