Binwalk Extractor failed

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Just tested this on 2 freshly installed Ubuntu machines. When trying to run FirmAE, binwalk seems to throw some errors related to its running uid.

sudo ./run.sh -c dlink ../Downloads/dataset/dlink/DIR822B1_FW200KRb06.bin 
[*] ../Downloads/dataset/dlink/DIR822B1_FW200KRb06.bin emulation start!!!
 
Extractor Exception: Binwalk extraction uses many third party utilities, which may not be secure. If you wish to have extraction utilities executed as the current user, use '--run-as=root' (binwalk itself must be run as root).
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/binwalk/core/module.py", line 258, in __init__
    self.load()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/binwalk/modules/extractor.py", line 147, in load
    raise ModuleException("Binwalk extraction uses many third party utilities, which may not be secure. If you wish to have extraction utilities executed as the current user, use '--run-as=%s' (binwalk itself must be run as root)." % user_info.pw_name)
binwalk.core.exceptions.ModuleException: Binwalk extraction uses many third party utilities, which may not be secure. If you wish to have extraction utilities executed as the current user, use '--run-as=root' (binwalk itself must be run as root).

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mittybeercommented, Jul 31, 2022

Great!

Thanks a lot. I Will be testing it with my students next week.

Kind regards,

Mick Beer

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lovericscommented, Nov 2, 2021

In FirmAE/sources/extractor/extractor.py on line 445 add --run-as=root to binwalk-scan. This will allow binwalk to run as expected.

for module in binwalk.scan(self.item, "--run-as=root", "-e", "-r", "-C", self.temp,
                                       signature=True, quiet=True):