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by 0x0 3081 days ago
But with ROP, there's usually no need to write into the text-segment to execute arbitrary code.
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In order to do ROP, you need to chain together gadgets of code segments which means you need to be able to see the source code/binary. This doesn't reveal any information about the call stack nor the available libraries to chain together ROP. And that's if stack canaries haven't screwed things up already.