Skip to content(if available)orjump to list(if available)

How to get the GOT address from a PLT stub using GDB

How to get the GOT address from a PLT stub using GDB

2 comments

·November 2, 2025
Visit

knome

you may consider defining your acronyms on first use for the sake of programmers who are unfamiliar with them.

ghostpepper

For anyone wondering, GOT is global offset table and PLT is procedure linkage table. gdb is the gnu debugger.

these are relevant if you, for some reason, want to write your own ELF parser, to load Linux executables without using the system loader.

it comes up fairly often when analyzing (or creating) advanced malware for linux