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Re: [rfc] Do not crash reading UPX binaries


On Monday 02 July 2007 01:27:47 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 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.

The reporting system was scary, and it didn't return me back to the bug report 
to let me add the references. Sorry and thanks for the fast fix.

Regards,
ismail

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