 <p>I'm running ubuntu linux 14.04.</p> <p>I entered, on the command line, </p> <pre><code>objdump -d untitled </code></pre> <p>where 'untitled' is an executable file</p> <p>It ran successfully with out any 'file truncated' message.</p> <p>I entered, on the command line,</p> <pre><code>objdump -d untitled.o </code></pre> <p>where 'untitled.o' is an object file</p> <p>It ran successfully with out any 'file truncated' message.</p> <p>Therefore, I strongly suspect the 'bufbomb' file is not a valid executable or object file.</p>