retitle 707014 buggy magic: #!/bin/sh with embedded binary data reported as 'data' tags 707014 confirmed forwarded 707014 http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001380.html found 707014 1:5.17-0.1 thanks
Stephen Dowdy wrote...
> In some cases, 'file' misreports an explicitly declared '#!/bin/sh'
> POSIX shell script as 'data'. My best guess is that these large
> files contain self-extracting binary payload which is being found by
> 'file', (...)
Jepp. The payload makes file believe this is binary data, but the
shell executable check is applied on text data only. See the URL above
for details, reproducer and a proposed fix.
Christoph
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