Bug 491698

Summary: file returns "bad note name size 0xfff10011 /false positive?" on 64bit executable
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan>
Component: fileAssignee: Jan Kaluža <jkaluza>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: BaseOS QE <qe-baseos-auto>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 4.7CC: dmair, kem, ohudlick, ovasik
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: file-4.10-9.el4 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-10-20 08:44:25 UTC Type: ---
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Description Olivier Fourdan 2009-03-23 17:04:14 UTC
Created attachment 336328 [details]
Proposed patch

Description of problem:

file returns  "bad note name size 0xfff10011 /false positive?" on 64bit executable

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

file-4.10-5.el4

How reproducible:

100% reproducible

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run File on the attached exec.
  
Actual results:

ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, bad note name size 0xfff10011, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped

Expected results:

ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped 

Additional info:

This is fixed in a later update of file, proposed patch attached.

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2010-10-20 08:44:25 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0783.html