Reading the ELF specification, it seems that for an EXEC type ELF file, the section header table is listed as "optional". Under what circumstances would it be omitted?
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Under what circumstances would it be omitted?
Section info is not needed at execution time, and traditionally is only kept for debugging (e.g. you can get a backtrace for a crash from an executable compiled without any debugging info).
You should be able to remove them with e.g. strip --strip-all, but that doesn't appear to work.
You could also binary-patch the the file -- e.g. zero out .e_shoff and .e_shnum in the ELF header.
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