On 12/18/14 10:12, Ed Maste wrote:
We have a rather outdated version of binutils in the base system. As
part of a project to update our toolchain I've started working on
using some of the tools from the elftoolchain project. There is now a
build knob to enable the use of the following tools:
FWIW,
A nice testing procedure, or even a pet project if generalized, would be
to test the tools with a fuzzer like security/afl. Apparently the GNU
binutils and Fedora elfutils developers having doing that [1].
Regards,
Pedro.
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On 18 December 2014 at 11:53, Pedro Giffuni p...@freebsd.org wrote:
test the tools with a fuzzer like security/afl
Yes, a very good idea, especially for strings(1) given the way it is
often used. I've already found a strings crash with afl.
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On 2014-12-18 15:02, Ed Maste wrote:
On 18 December 2014 at 11:53, Pedro Giffuni p...@freebsd.org wrote:
test the tools with a fuzzer like security/afl
Yes, a very good idea, especially for strings(1) given the way it is
often used. I've already found a strings crash with afl.
