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Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 01:44:31 +0100
From: Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Offset2lib: bypassing full ASLR on 64bit Linux

On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 17:43:44 -0500
Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@...thhorseman.net> wrote:

> i couldn't find a reference to this in the nautilus bugtracker, so i
> just posted:
> 
>  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741183

I tried to dig into this a bit. I'm not really sure, but based on the
output I assume nautilus is relying on file or libmagic to assess the
file type.

And that's what fails:
$ file --mime-type pie
pie: application/x-sharedlib


It seems there is no really easy way to separate executables from
shared libraries and whether this should be considered a bug in
file/libmagic. The only thing I quickly found that would be possible is
searching if a SONAME is present. libmagic uses some "magic" file
format to parse files, I don't know if that's capable of such complex
parsing.

(oh, btw, this is one more reason to wipe out potential security bugs
in file...)

-- 
Hanno Böck
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