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[BUG] PE has a bug (and a "nonstandard" stub) (DOSX)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 26.10.2007, 09:38
(edited by Japheth on 26.10.2007, 11:49)

> Seems I found a bug in Japheth's PE tool - it crashes when
> attempting to list the relocs of this file

Thank you very much indeed for the bug report! I will look at it ASAP.

[edit]it is fixed in v1.9[/edit]

> Besides of this, it seems to have a "special" $240 bytes stub - but works
> with both this stub as well as the standard $200 bytes one when I PESTUB
> it - any reson for this stub around ?

This is not "special", it's just the stub the MS linker I used has added. This tool adds some - encrypted? - stuff behind the 200h byte header. If you love conspiracy theories you will be able to imagine what evil things MS has hidden there.

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Complete thread:

• [BUG] PE has a bug (and a "nonstandard" stub) - DOS386, 25.10.2007, 06:54 (DOSX)
  • [BUG] PE has a bug (and a "nonstandard" stub) - Japheth, 26.10.2007, 09:38
    • [BUG] PE 1.9 has one more bug (and a "nonstandard" stub) - DOS386, 28.10.2007, 04:08
      • [BUG] PE 1.9 has one more bug (and a "nonstandard" stub) - Japheth, 28.10.2007, 09:50