[Pkg-xbmc-maintainers] Bug#716134: Mayhem detected crashes in XBMC's *.vis files

[Balint Reczey]

tags 716134 confirmed
tags 715603 confirmed
severity 715603 minor
severity 716134 minor
thanks

Hi Alexandre,

Thank you for the analysis performed on the Debian archive. It helps
improving the quality of software in Debian a lot.

Regarding those two crashes they happen due to the .vis files do not
export main() or any other entry point and meant to be executed on their
own, but they are plugins for XBMC.

I will remove the execute bit on the files in the next upload to not
misguide the automatic analysis and to conform to the Debian Policy [1],
but not everyone sees executable shared libraries as problems [2,3].

I suggest skipping ELF files without entry points in future analysis
because they crash invariably.

Thank you,
Balint

[1]
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-sharedlibs-runtime
[2]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6299395/gcc-generates-shared-object-with-execute-permissions
[3] http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2007-April/013514.html

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