[BCEL-47] Corrupted instruction list created on valid class file

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.1
• Fix Version/s: 5.2
• Component/s: Main
• External issue URL: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29275
• External issue ID: 29275
• Assignee: Apache Commons Developers
• Reporter: pierre.cregut
• Created: 28/May/04 12:04
• Updated: 24/Apr/14 09:17
• Resolved: 15/Feb/05 20:08

Description

The list created from a classfile can be suddenly meaningless:

bcel fails to create a valid instruction list if one of the instruction
is an LDC_W with a short (<256) index. In that case the following
instruction is taken at an address with an offset error of -1 byte.