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has caused the Debian Bug report #320101,
regarding elfsh 'append' and 'extend' commands break ELF file
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Package: elfsh
Version: 0.51b3-2
Severity: normal
Hello.
I tried to use elfsh to add missing SONAME to an ELF shared library for
which no sources are available.
I discovered that elfsh can extend ELF section. So I thought that adding
SONAME is as simple as extending .dynstr section, adding SONAME
string there, then extending .dynamic section and adding DT_SONAME entry
there.
Unfortunately that did not work.
When elfsh extends a section, it does not care about keeping data in
other sections consistent with new section sizes.
The following data becomes broken after extending .dynstr and/or
.dynamic sections:
- segment sizes and offsets in PHT,
- section offsets in several .dynamic entries,
- offsets in relocation tables.
While first two could be fixed by hands in a reasonable time, manual fixing
of relocation tables is next to impossible.
I believe that if elfsh claims that it can extend ELF section, it should
do the job completely - that means, fix all needed offsets. At least
such behaviour should be available as an option.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers proposed-updates
APT policy: (640, 'proposed-updates'), (640, 'stable'), (620,
'testing-proposed-updates'), (620, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R)
Versions of packages elfsh depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libelfsh0 0.51b3-2 The ELF shell library
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libreadline4 4.3-11 GNU readline and history libraries
elfsh recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 0.65rc1-1.1+rm
The elfsh package has been removed from Debian testing, unstable and
experimental, so I am now closing the bugs that were still opened
against it.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/449356 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
--
Marco Rodrigues
http://Marco.Tondela.org
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