pwninit VS goblin

Compare pwninit vs goblin and see what are their differences.

pwninit

pwninit - automate starting binary exploit challenges (by io12)

goblin

An impish, cross-platform binary parsing crate, written in Rust (by m4b)
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pwninit goblin
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786 1,136
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0.0 6.6
4 months ago 7 days ago
Rust Rust
MIT License MIT License
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pwninit

Posts with mentions or reviews of pwninit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

goblin

Posts with mentions or reviews of goblin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-09.
  • [ANN] yabridge 4.0, with chainloading, an overhauled backend, and many user experience improvements
    3 projects | /r/linuxaudio | 9 Jun 2022
    On the backend side, a lot has changed. The biggest change is that the dependency on Boost has been completely removed, and everything has been reworked accordingly. This should make packaging easier, as yabridge now no longer depends on any system library other than the basic libraries needed to interact with X11. Some parts of Boost have been replaced by other headers-only libraries, while other parts now simply use custom implementations. All of this is explained in more detail in the 'Packaging notes' section of the changelog. Yabridgectl also lost its dependency on winedump, at least in most cases. It now tries to parse plugin libraries directly using the goblin binary parsing library. This should also speed up the syncing process. I did, however, run into one plugin that this new parser couldn't handle. If that happens then winedump will still be used instead.
  • Crash reporting in Rust
    1 project | /r/rust | 23 May 2022
    For now the minidump creation is a fairly faithful port of the Breakpad code, but like I said some of that code is really old, so there's probably cases where taking a step back and rethinking the approach based on new kernel or OS capabilities or, instead of recreating process snapshotting for each non-Windows, just have a really good parser for each OSes crash format that does a transform. Rust is a fantastic language for writing those kinds of parsers, so that would definitely be an interesting avenue to investigate, especially since in the Linux case a lot of groundwork has already been done by goblin.
  • What's your favourite under-rated Rust crate and why?
    25 projects | /r/rust | 7 Jun 2021
    I do security-related projects in Rust, and goblin has been my go-to crate for any type of binary parsing (ELF/PE/Mach-O).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pwninit and goblin you can also consider the following projects:

cargo-binstall - Binary installation for rust projects

autocxx - Tool for safe ergonomic Rust/C++ interop driven from existing C++ headers

nue - I/O and binary data encoding for Rust

eve-echoes-tools - Collection of tools helping in reverse engineering Eve Echoes

bincode - A binary encoder / decoder implementation in Rust.

LIEF - LIEF - Library to Instrument Executable Formats

rustig - A tool to detect code paths leading to Rust's panic handler

binary-security-check - Moved: https://codeberg.org/koutheir/binary-security-check

rustysd - A service manager that is able to run "traditional" systemd services, written in rust

netease-messiah-tools - Tools working with files in NetEase's Messiah Engine (Primarily aimed towards Diablo Immortal for now)

intruducer - A Rust crate to load a shared library into a Linux process without using ptrace.

biodiff - Hex diff viewer using alignment algorithms from biology