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Re: Malformed phdrs in separated debuginfo

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:43:15 +0100
Subject: Re: Malformed phdrs in separated debuginfo

On 02/24/2014 05:54 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:

>> Is there a reliable way to recognize separate debugging information?
>> Then I could avoid extracting data from phdrs.
>
> I looked a bit into this and I don't see any way to detect that the
> phdrs are invalid, unless you already know this is a separate debuginfo
> file and not a real/valid ELF file.

Could you change the debuginfo extraction to clearly mark the resulting 
ELF files as separate debuginfo?  This would help dealing with this in 
the future.

-- 
Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team

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