Re: OSS driver removal, 2nd round

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>> Well you could patch the affected plugin's .dynstr table so that it should at
>> best try to call a function that has not yet been defined somewhere else (like
>> open); IOW, you change the .dynstr entry from 'open' to say 'my_open', and
>> regularly include libmy.so through e.g. LD_PRELOAD.
>> 
>> Of course the MD5 won't match afterwards, but I think the plugin should execute
>> as usual afterwards, since .dynstr is something no app should rely on.
>
>Is this likely to work with an app like Skype that takes extensive steps
>to thwart reverse engineers?

We do not reverse engineer the .text section, but change the .dynstr 
section that is specific to the ELF format. I doubt any app out there md5s 
itself.

>(Of course a Skype beta with ALSA support was just released, so it's
>much less important now)

A nice challenge anyhow!


Jan Engelhardt
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