binary-hardening

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps you protect your compiled programs from various exploitation techniques by enabling and verifying crucial security mitigations.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Binary Analysis: Use checksec to understand the current security posture of your executables.
• Hardened Builds: Apply compiler and linker flags for protections like RELRO, PIE, stack canaries, and FORTIFY_SOURCE.
• Advanced Mitigations: Implement Control Flow Integrity (CFI), hardware shadow stacks, and seccomp-bpf for defense-in-depth.
• Use Case: You've developed a critical C++ application and want to ensure it's as resistant to buffer overflows and control-flow hijacking as possible before deployment.

Quick Start

Analyze the security mitigations present in the executable file named 'my_program' using the checksec tool.