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Re: [rfc] Do not crash reading UPX binaries
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 01:12:27AM +0300, Ismail Dönmez wrote:
> Please not that attached gdbupx is from a security advisory [0] [1] but it
> looks like a simple DoS.
>
> [0] http://blog.xwings.net/?p=71
> [1] http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/922
That would be useful in the report next time :-) I spent twenty
minutes figuring out what was going on, and yes, it was the invalid
symbol table pointer. I'm happy to hear that this won't affect all
UPX files after all, just truncated ones.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery