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GEF (GDB Enhanced Features) - a modern experience for GDB with advanced debugging capabilities for exploit devs & reverse engineers on Linux

11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 3 stories, 8 comments · first 2017-08-12 · latest 2025-05-28

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  1. …full power of Python with a decent debugger API; many of the plugins I use frequently (e.g. GEF - https://github.com/hugsy/gef ) are written using the Python GDB API.
    comment by nneonneo · 2025-05-28 · in DWARF as a Shared Reverse Engineering Format
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    GEF – GDB Enhanced Features
    story by gjvc · 2024-09-22 · 0 comments
  3. There is also GEF, which is widely used by the reverse engineering and CTF community. https://github.com/hugsy/gef
    comment by hegzploit · 2023-11-06 · in Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (2009)
  4. …and use other TUIs for GDB: * https://github.com/pwndbg/pwndbg * https://github.com/longld/peda * https://github.com/hugsy/gef
    comment by yurymik · 2023-01-04 · in Emulating an emulator inside itself. Meet Blink
  5. …than it makes a lot of things really obvious (like watching what value lives in which register). https://github.com/hugsy/gef LLDB's closest alternative to this is called Venom, but it's not the same at all. https://github.com/ovh/venom
    comment by dijit · 2022-03-21 · in Debugging with GDB
  6. …around reversing and exploit development, but it definitely doesn't have to be used that way. [1] https://github.com/hugsy/gef
    comment by Graziano_M · 2022-03-01 · in Debugging with GDB
  7. …like you're using those anyway. For general debugging it should work the exact same way as pwndbg. https://github.com/hugsy/gef
    comment by nhuck · 2020-12-13 · in The State of Linux Debuggers
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    GEF: GDB Enhanced Features
    story by ingve · 2018-10-30 · 0 comments
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    GEF – GDB Enhanced Features for exploit devs and reversers
    story by zdw · 2018-03-20 · 0 comments
  10. GEF as well: https://github.com/hugsy/gef Voltron adds awesome views, GEF adds a lot of handy functionality. I use both (often together)
    comment by Graziano_M · 2017-08-13 · in Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]
  11. …that nice to use. But there exist several extensions ( https://github.com/cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard , https://github.com/hugsy/gef , https://github.com/pwndbg/pwndbg , https://github.com/longld/peda , even though developed for it, these are…
    comment by bennofs · 2017-08-12 · in Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB (2015) [video]