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Deal properly with large UPX-compressed binaries #14

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pombredanne opened this issue Jul 25, 2016 · 0 comments
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Deal properly with large UPX-compressed binaries #14

pombredanne opened this issue Jul 25, 2016 · 0 comments

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Scanning UPX-compressed executables does not make sense unless they could be unpacked first.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPX

For instance these PostgreSQL installers take a large amount of resources and time to scan.
And there is little to squeeze out of the raw binaries.

They are not really archives but exe hence the reason why they are still scanned for now.
We will need to figure out a way to avoid issues when dealing with these large binaries that cannot yield much when scanned.
Both are compressed with UPX which makes their binary completely opaque short of decompressing them assuming they are using a standard UPX compressor.

@pombredanne pombredanne transferred this issue from aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit Feb 10, 2021
pombredanne added a commit that referenced this issue May 2, 2022
Add support for gems and improve RPM support
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