Re: [PATCH][RFC] invalid ELF binaries can execute - better sanity checking

[Willy Tarreau]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:20:53PM +0100, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote:
> I have a 933 byte less and a 305 byte strings command on my initrd
> (taken from some floppy distribution) which report "ERROR: Corrupted
> section header size" via 'file *' and there is probably many many
> more out there.

Then upgrade to file-4.07 which fixes this bad identification. I was very
annoyed by this problem because I too sometimes generate rather tiny
executables, and my build scripts automatically mark them as executables
when 'file' tells me they are ELF executables. When I discovered it, it
was because the victim was init...

Cheers,
Willy

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