Frida 16.0.12 Released ∞
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Lots of goodies this time around. One of them is our brand new Linux injector. This was a lot of fun, especially as it involved lots of pair-programming with @hsorbo.
We’re quite excited about this one. Frida now supports injecting into Linux containers, such as Flatpak apps. Not just that, it can finally inject code into processes without a dynamic linker present.
Another neat improvement is if you’re running Frida on Linux >= 3.17, you may notice that it no longer writes out any temporary files. This is accomplished through memfd and a reworked injector signaling mechanism.
Our new Linux injector has a fully asynchronous design, without any dangerous blocking operations that can result in deadlocks. It is also the first injector to support providing a control channel to the injected payload.
Down the road the plan is to implement this in our other backends as well, and make it part of our cross-platform Injector API. The thinking there is to make it easier to implement custom payloads.
There are also many other goodies in this release, so definitely check out the changelog below.
Enjoy!
Changelog
- linux: Re-engineer injector. Thanks for the productive pair-programming, @hsorbo!
- linux: Fix the libc-based module enumeration.
- linux: Fix query_libc_name() on musl.
- linux: Fix module handle resolver logic on musl.
- linux: Fix Module.ensure_initialized() on musl.
- darwin: Make ThreadSuspendMonitor passthrough if called by Frida, to avoid deadlock scenarios. Thanks @mrmacete!
- darwin: During spawn(), always use PTYs for piped stdio, and enable close-on-exec.
- windows: Use existing DbgHelp instance if present. Thanks @fesily!
- windows: Implement Module.enumerate_symbols(). Thanks @fesily!
- process: Skip cloaked modules in enumerate_modules().
- cloak: Add has_range_containing().
- elf-module: Replace has_interp() with get_interpreter().
- gumjs: Fix runtime serialization unsigned encoding.
- objc: Add symbol property on method as a means for the method object to fully describe itself in a human readable way. Thanks @mrmacete!
- java: Use symbols for unique property names. Thanks @yotamN!
- java: Add toString() method to overloads. Thanks @oriori1703!
- java: Add toString() method to types and field. Thanks @yotamN!
- java: Fix toString() for overloaded methods. Thanks @yotamN!
- server: Support loading as a shared library. Thanks @Yannayli!