Bug 5871

Summary:

strings produces "out of memory" error on certain input

Product:

Sisyphus

Reporter:

Mikhail Zabaluev <mhz>

Component:

binutils

Assignee:

Gleb F-Malinovskiy <glebfm>

Status:

CLOSED FIXED

QA Contact:

qa-sisyphus

Severity:

major

Priority:

CC:

glebfm

Version:

unstable

Hardware:

all

OS:

Linux

Attachments:

Description	Flags
The file causing an error	none
Another sample file with large section size	none

Description Mikhail Zabaluev 2005-01-13 03:26:35 MSK

When run on a certain file (see attachment), strings exits with an error:
strings: out of memory allocating 1365836033 bytes after a total of 0 bytes

Comment 1 Mikhail Zabaluev 2005-01-13 03:27:52 MSK

Created attachment 689 [details]
The file causing an error

Comment 2 Dmitry V. Levin 2005-01-14 20:43:52 MSK

I wonder whether it is a bug or not, since
strings --target=binary passes this test.

Comment 3 Dmitry V. Levin 2005-01-15 03:08:09 MSK

Created attachment 693 [details]
Another sample file with large section size

Specially crafted sample file with enormously large section size.

Comment 4 Mikhail Zabaluev 2005-01-15 11:46:55 MSK

The first file isn't an ELF file at all, it is a binary state dump produced by
Eclipse.

I think it's still a problem. The utility should fall back to --target=binary
mode if sanity checks on the object format fail.

Comment 5 Dmitry V. Levin 2005-03-17 15:37:48 MSK

No, this utility should not fall back to --target=binary.
The OOM handling fixed in binutils-2.15.94.0.2-alt3.