<p>Lately there has been a lot of excitement over the use of DTrace for bug hunting and reverse engineering purposes on platforms that support it such as Solaris. But there are a plethora of advanced tools and techniques out therefor other more common x86 based platforms, so does DTrace really add that much?In this talk that question is examined by introducing RSol, a Ruby based debugging component for Solaris in a similar vein to PyDebug for Windows. RSol allows powerful bug hunting tools to be coded quickly, and using this the pros and cons are investigated of using DTrace vs more traditional debugging techniques to achieve different goals in different circumstances. The ultimate plan is for RSol to become a suite allowing debugging and DTrace based techniques to be used together in a complimentary way.</p>
<p>Matt Hillman is a security consultant and researcher at MWR InfoSecurity inthe UK, and a hacker at heart. Spotting the need Solaris/SPARC had for thekinds of bug hunting tools available for more common platforms, as well as thehype around using tools such as DTrace, Matt quickly became concerned withinvestigating which techniques were in fact most appropriate to achievedifferent goals when reverse engineering, fuzzing and bug hunting.</p>