binary file not running

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 11 15:08:07 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 18:06 +0530, Jatin K wrote:
> On Thursday 11 August 2011 05:56 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 10:21 +0530, Jatin K wrote:
> >> you should do  chmod +x a.out   or  run it like sh a.out
> > "sh a.out" isn't going to do anything unless a.out is a Shell script.
> >
> > poc
> >
> I assumed it is shell script. so

Then you can't have read the original message. The OP showed that he was
compiling a C source file and trying to run the resulting binary.

Besides which, a shell script named "a.out" would arouse my suspicions.
Although not illegal, I would regard it as an attempted Trojan.

poc



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