I've hex-edited a string in an Android ELF binary.
Now, it won't run, and gives the error message CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE, presumably due to a bad checksum.
Does anybody have a tool to fix the checksum?
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Sign up to join this communityI've hex-edited a string in an Android ELF binary.
Now, it won't run, and gives the error message CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE, presumably due to a bad checksum.
Does anybody have a tool to fix the checksum?
ELF itself doesn't specify any kind of checksum. Your link error is likely due to an incorrect edit which changed some offsets within the file. If you don't adjust the offsets, you have to replace a string with a string that is no longer than the original, and you cannot add new fields unless you have a known amount of slack space available.
Use readelf -a
to check the ELF file headers, and compare old with new.
I'd suggest using HT Editor for all your ELF fun.
HT is a file editor/viewer/analyzer for executables. The goal is to combine the low-level functionality of a debugger and the usability of IDEs. We plan to implement all (hex-)editing features and support of the most important file formats.
That's what it's made for. There are other tools of course.