Pwndbg 2026.02.18 is out! Enhance your GDB or LLDB experience!

We visualize branches in nearpc, synchronize your decompiler (IDA/Binja/Ghidra) via decomp2dbg, annotate stack variabless from debug info or decompiler, support new Linux kernel debugging commands - for tracing SLUB allocs/frees or dumping tasks information.

See what's changed in: https://github.com/pwndbg/pwndbg/releases/tag/2026.02.18

Want Pwndbg to keep moving fast, or, having us give a talk about it? Sponsor us: https://github.com/sponsors/pwndbg/

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I've never tried gdb remote-debugging, but seeing that there's a new pwndbg out, I felt like trying it out. Unfortunately on MacOS it's only for remote debugging, so let's do that!

terminal 1:
local% ssh -L 12345:localhost:12345 user@remote
remote$ gdbserver :12345 /whatever

terminal 2:
local% ./bin/pwndbg whatever-localcopy
(gdb) target remote localhost:12345

works - see screenshot 🙂

#ctf #cybersecurity #pwndbg #overthewire #vortex #gdbserver #ssh

We released new Pwndbg: https://github.com/pwndbg/pwndbg/releases/tag/2025.05.30 !

Among others it brings:
- New & improved kernel debugging commands (buddydump, msr, slab) and more x64 regs in context
- New command for dealing with armcm exceptions: dump-register-frame
- Disasm now shows an ✘ marker for emulated branches we know won't be taken
- Improved disasm for ARM, MIPS and LoongArch64 architectures
- Initial support for the IBM s390x architecture
- IDA sync integration fixes

And also cool portable one-liner installers:
$ curl -qsL 'https://install.pwndbg.re' | sh -s -- -t pwndbg-gdb
$ curl -qsL 'https://install.pwndbg.re' | sh -s -- -t pwndbg-lldb

Want to support us? Sponsor us at https://github.com/sponsors/pwndbg !

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I will be giving a talk on Pwndbg open source development in ~1h on a local Python meeetup!

It will be livestreamed on: https://www.youtube.com/live/euK_S81Qnuo?si=EhZ-WhnP-4yZRElE

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Released new Pwndbg: 2025.04.18

It adds display of breakpoints in the disasm view, new libcinfo command, improves attachp & hexdump commands, UI, TUI and more. Also, command names use "-" istead of "_" now for consistency.

Read more and download it on https://github.com/pwndbg/pwndbg/releases/tag/2025.04.18 !

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Released Pwndbg 2025.02.19 with new commands for dumping Linux kernel nftables, initial LoongArch64 support and more!

See changelog on https://github.com/pwndbg/pwndbg/releases/tag/2025.02.19 !

#pwndbg #gdb #pwning #reverseengineering #binaryexploitation #kernel #debugging

I did a write up for #utctf’s, which ran over this weekend, “In The Dark” challenge. A game where the author ifdef-ed out the visuals. Learned about manually using ptrace to hook functions and that apparently #pwndbg has cheatengine-esque search feature, because of course it has.

Currently hosted as a gist, maybe will eventually set up a blog and put it up there… maybe

https://gist.github.com/nrabulinski/ba0a6927866e822e27faae190185a0f1