Comments on: Preparing a bugfix version of CFF Explorer

By: gho

gho — Sat, 10 Jun 2017 06:51:37 +0000

A patch for my referred tool? Awful! Can’t wait to see it. I couldn’t have made DxWnd without it. Thank you and … ciao!

By: user

user — Tue, 03 May 2016 16:47:52 +0000

CFF bugs in processing managed resources: http://lifeinhex.com/cff-bugs-in-processing-managed-resources/

P.S. The download link can be found in http://ntcore.com/exsuite.php ( Hint: look for the lines starting with SHA1: )

By: Daniel Pistelli

Daniel Pistelli — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 21:17:51 +0000

In reply to Charles. Thank you for reporting the bug! :) If I ever do a bugfix for CFF I'll make sure to include the fix for the bug you reported. Thanks again for the detailed report.

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 07:38:13 +0000

Probably too late on this, but I noticed an issue with CFF Explorer's scripting issue today, so I figured I might as well report it (For reference, this is CFF Explorer 8.0.0.0): Due to the 0-based array modifications made to CFF's lua implementation, the built-in type function is currently reporting incorrect types for the supplied values. I've reproduced this issue in the following script:


-- Create a log of type evaluations.
-- 
local typeFixes = {
	['nil'] = 'boolean',       -- LUA_TNIL => LUA_TBOOLEAN
	['boolean'] = 'userdata',  -- LUA_TBOOLEAN => LUA_TLIGHTUSERDATA
	['userdata'] = 'number',   -- LUA_TLIGHTUSERDATA => LUA_TNUMBER
	['number'] = 'string',     -- LUA_TNUMBER => LUA_TSTRING
	['string'] = 'table',      -- LUA_TSTRING => LUA_TTABLE
	['table'] = 'function',    -- LUA_TTABLE => LUA_TFUNCTION
	['function'] = 'userdata'  -- LUA_TFUNCTION => LUA_TUSERDATA
	-- ['userdata'] = 'thread' -- LUA_TFUNCTION => LUA_TTHREAD
}

local hLog = CreateLog('IncorrectTypes.log')

function LogType(value, code)
	LogPrint(hLog, string.format('type(%s) => "%s"\n', code, type(value)))
end

LogType(nil, 'nil')
LogType(true, 'true')
LogType(5, '5')
LogType('foobar', '"foobar"')
LogType({}, '{}')
LogType(function() end, 'function() end')

CloseLog(hLog)

That aside, I made a dump of the globals in CF's lua for my own reference, so I thought I'd share it in hopes that it might be helpful to someone else: CFF-Explorer-Globals.lua Thanks for the awesome tool.

By: Chromium

Chromium — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 11:38:06 +0000

Hello,

“UPDATE: Uploaded new version with the following improvements:”

but where to find this version? downloaded from main page, but it is still the old 2012 version

By: Edi Liu

Edi Liu — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 09:50:25 +0000

Dear Daniel,
Your CFF Explorer is very great tool for us as a developer/reverser, i hope you still update this tool with an up-to-date features, two thumbs for your great works.

regards
Edi Liu

By: PSXGamerPro1

PSXGamerPro1 — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 06:45:03 +0000

Can you update the UPX version to 3.9 or whatever is the latest.

By: Daniel Pistelli

Daniel Pistelli — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:43:28 +0000

In reply to Stefan Achatz.

Hello Stefan,
please note that the 40 limitation can be changed from the settings, it’s a ‘security’ limitation in order to avoid loading files too large into memory.
Hope this helps
Daniel

By: Stefan Achatz

Stefan Achatz — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:20:09 +0000

Hi, your tool is my first choice when I have to look into PE file resources. I recently found out the Explorer has a 40MB limitation. Is that intentionally, could this be lifted and is the commercial version limited the same way? I found no info on that on the website.
Thanks
Stefan

By: Daniel Pistelli

Daniel Pistelli — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:17:44 +0000

I’ll add this to the TODO list, along with the other suggestions. Right now there’s already a single Zip file, what’s missing is only the INI settings instead of registry.