Crash when debugging an Android armv7 executable

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, cpp
Domain
mobile-dev, reverse-engineering

Research direction

Start by reproducing the crash while Binary Ninja connects to gdbserver for the reported Android armv7 executable. The issue does not name a file, entry point, or test, so investigate the debugger connection path and define done as completing the connection without a crash.

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Description

bug crash Impact: High remote debugging

A customer reported the BN crashes while connecting to the gdbserver. The target is an armv7 executable running in an Android device.

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