Archive for August 2019

elfutils 0.177 released with eu-elfclassify

Posted on August 15, 2019, 12:44.

elfutils 0.177 was released with various bug fixes (if you ever had issues updating > 2GB ELF files using libelf, this release is for you!) and some new features. One of the features is eu-elfclassify, a utility by Florian Weimer to analyze ELF objects. People use various tricks to construct ELF files that might make […]

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bzip2 and the CVE that wasn’t

Posted on August 2, 2019, 17:14.

Compiling with the GCC sanitizers and then fuzzing the resulting binaries might find real bugs. But not all such bugs are security issues. When a CVE is filed there is some pressure to treat such an issue with urgency and push out a fix as soon as possible. But taking your time and making sure […]

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