Welcome,

this fork offers following additional functions as of Nov.2016:

• Register names in stack table

• Trace logs are separated per traceinst and tracecall and include also date+time in filename

More will follow soon - I guess ;-)

Have fun, Aydin

Below the copy of the original readme from the official PEDA github repository:

peda

PEDA - Python Exploit Development Assistance for GDB

Key Features:

• Enhance the display of gdb: colorize and display disassembly codes, registers, memory information during debugging.
• Add commands to support debugging and exploit development (for a full list of commands use peda help):
  • aslr -- Show/set ASLR setting of GDB
  • checksec -- Check for various security options of binary
  • dumpargs -- Display arguments passed to a function when stopped at a call instruction
  • dumprop -- Dump all ROP gadgets in specific memory range
  • elfheader -- Get headers information from debugged ELF file
  • elfsymbol -- Get non-debugging symbol information from an ELF file
  • lookup -- Search for all addresses/references to addresses which belong to a memory range
  • patch -- Patch memory start at an address with string/hexstring/int
  • pattern -- Generate, search, or write a cyclic pattern to memory
  • procinfo -- Display various info from /proc/pid/
  • pshow -- Show various PEDA options and other settings
  • pset -- Set various PEDA options and other settings
  • readelf -- Get headers information from an ELF file
  • ropgadget -- Get common ROP gadgets of binary or library
  • ropsearch -- Search for ROP gadgets in memory
  • searchmem|find -- Search for a pattern in memory; support regex search
  • shellcode -- Generate or download common shellcodes.
  • skeleton -- Generate python exploit code template
  • vmmap -- Get virtual mapping address ranges of section(s) in debugged process
  • xormem -- XOR a memory region with a key

Installation

git clone https://github.com/AydinChavez/peda ~/peda
echo "source ~/peda/peda.py" >> ~/.gdbinit
echo "DONE! debug your program with gdb and enjoy"

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