radareorg/radare2

Out of the box support for VDEX and CDEX formats

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#16,000 opened on Feb 19, 2020

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Description

Currently, radare2 supports loading DEX files, but to open these you need to convert them to the DEX first. It would be nice to be able to open them as-is, without prior conversion.

  • VDEX
  • CDEX

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Research direction
Study the existing DEX loader in radare2 and the vdexExtractor tool to understand the VDEX/CDEX format structure. Identify the key differences and implement a parser for loading them directly.
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c
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securitytooling
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3
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3-5 days
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Clear
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Creverse engineeringbinary parsing
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40