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Make symbolic link for Android
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Description
Using Android binaries found in the rootfs, the readlink syscall does not find the binaries associated with file descriptors 3 and 4 which are libdl.so and libc.so respectively.
Here's the warning message raise during the execution:
linker: readlink("/proc/self/fd/3") failed: Operation not permitted [fd=3]
linker: warning: unable to get realpath for the library "/system/lib64/libdl.so". Will use given path.
linker: readlink("/proc/self/fd/4") failed: Operation not permitted [fd=4]
linker: warning: unable to get realpath for the library "/system/lib64/libc.so". Will use given path.
propClient: PropClient failed to load
Creating symbolic links as shown below is enough to satisfy the linker:
mkdir -p rootfs/arm64_android/proc/self/fd
ln -sf rootfs/arm64_android/system/lib64/libdl.so rootfs/arm64_android/proc/self/fd/3
ln -sf rootfs/arm64_android/system/lib64/libc.so rootfs/arm64_android/proc/self/fd/4
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Research direction
Start by tracing how the Android rootfs handles /proc/self/fd and the readlink syscall, using the reported paths for descriptors 3 and 4 as the entry point. Compare that behavior with the proposed rootfs/arm64_android/proc/self/fd symlinks; done means the linker resolves libdl.so and libc.so without the readlink warnings and PropClient loads.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, python
- Domain
- operating-systems, reverse-engineering
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100