Various SIGFPEs on sh_entsize == 0

Frank Ch. Eigler fche at redhat.com
Wed Mar 23 14:51:32 UTC 2011


Hi -

roland wrote:

> [...] This attitude is generally frowned upon by admins, who like to run
> eu-readelf on random untrusted files and so forth.  But Uli did not
> agree that was proper admin behavior.  [...]

Uli, do you have anything to add to this?  The concensus appears to be
building that elfutils and similar tools like ldd are indeed being
used by admins, and so should be robust with respect to malevolent
data.  What technical reasons exist against this?

- FChE


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