wintln!(): teaching an ELF to uwu!!
summary
The prototype inserts itself into the process with a single function call by overwriting the GOT relocation so all write and println output passes through a wrapper that calls the original via a stored pointer. It discovers addresses with gdb and readelf to find offsets, is written in Rust and uses mem::transmute to make a function pointer, and fixes an initial segfault by making the relocation page writable with mprotect the page. The pointaland crate is a minimal working prototype that uwuifies stdout.
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