stegdetect: missing rules.ini for stegbreak and FTBFS

[135e2]

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• I am submitting a bug report for existing functionality that does not work as intended

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Bug description

Attempting to use stegbreak (part of stegdetect) to search for a JPHSed file leads to the following error:

stegbreak -f ~/Projects/ctf/rockyou.txt -tj hide\ and\ seek.jpg
stegbreak: fopen: /usr/share/stegbreak/rules.ini: No such file or directory

After some searching, I found some related bug reports (from a loooooooong time ago):
[Debian Bug #345230]
[Ubuntu Bug #55363]

Had to download the rules.ini from comments to /usr/share/stegbreak/ to make stegbreak work.
Although it can be manually configured by end-users using the -r <rules> chooser, providing a usable default rules file would greatly enhance user experience.

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What's worse, trying to build from the PKGBUILD results in a FTBFS:

gcc  -O2 -Wall -g  -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now -o stegdetect common.o jphide_table.o util.o stegdetect.o chi2cdf.o extraction.o discrimination.o math.o dct.o jutil.o f5.o dirname.o md5.o -L./jpeg-6b -ljpeg -L./file -lfile -lm -L./jpeg-6b -ljpeg
/usr/bin/ld: ./file/libfile.a(file.o):(.bss+0x8): multiple definition of `progname'; stegdetect.o:/home/shang/stegdetect/src/stegdetect/stegdetect.c:76: first defined here
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [Makefile:557: stegdetect] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/shang/stegdetect/src/stegdetect'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:631: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/shang/stegdetect/src/stegdetect'
make: *** [Makefile:448: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

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I understand that the stegdetect project is quite obsolete and hasn't been maintained for years, with a CVE, easy-to-trigger segfaults, and outdated source code. However, stegbreak remains the only program that can launch dictionary attacks against the JPHS algorithm (afaik).
I sincerely appreciate the packaging work you all have done and hope for an update.

Actual result: stegbreak cannot run without rules.ini, FTBFS
Expected result: have the rules.ini installed as default (without the need to manually download and specify)

Info for developers

GNU/Linux distribution: ArchLinux
Tool version: 20.28a4f07-1

[ikstream]

rules.ini link for reference https://launchpadlibrarian.net/16697277/rules.ini

[ikstream]

There seems to be a solution to the compile issue. I tried to build from the provided source, and it works. We would need to create a patch file from there, so it can be applied during the build process.

If you have some time at hand I would appreciate it, if you could have a look at it. If not, it might take a moment to fix this for me.

[135e2]

There seems to be a solution to the compile issue. I tried to build from the provided source, and it works. We would need to create a patch file from there, so it can be applied during the build process.

If you have some time at hand I would appreciate it, if you could have a look at it. If not, it might take a moment to fix this for me.

Roger. PR #3967 is ready for review.

[ikstream]

Thanks a lot!