From 0df5b7e39a137077de0bd091e2011b9ff3865ac9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zach Riggle <riggle@google.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:37:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Bail nicely if AUXV is unreadable

---
 pwndbg/auxv.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pwndbg/auxv.py b/pwndbg/auxv.py
index 9ff7e14cf..67fe916ae 100644
--- a/pwndbg/auxv.py
+++ b/pwndbg/auxv.py
@@ -81,7 +81,12 @@ class AUXV(dict):
         name         = AT_CONSTANTS.get(const, "AT_UNKNOWN%i" % const)
 
         if name in ['AT_EXECFN', 'AT_PLATFORM']:
-            value = gdb.Value(value).cast(pwndbg.typeinfo.pchar).string()
+            try:
+                value = gdb.Value(value)
+                value = value.cast(pwndbg.typeinfo.pchar)
+                value = value.string()
+            except:
+                value = 'couldnt read AUXV!'
 
         self[name] = value
     def __getattr__(self, attr):