Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:42:46AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Can an i386 elfsh load any big endian binary successfully?
>
> I copied /bin/ls from a sparc computer to a i386 system and elfsh
> seems to segfault for that too:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] file ls
> ls: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, SPARC, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked
> (uses shared libs), stripped
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ elfsh
>
>
> Welcome to The ELF shell 0.51b3 .::.
>
> .::. This software is under the General Public License
> .::. Please visit http://www.gnu.org to know about Free Software
>
>
> [ELFsh-0.51b3]$ load ls
>
> Segmentation fault
Same for elfsh/powerpc loading a /bin/ls from i386. So I guess there
are two bugs in elfsh:
- The endianness swapping of the ELF header goes wrong.
- The resulting offsets aren't checked for plausibility, IOW, some
randomly broken ELF binary can crash it.
Thiemo
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