Error mounting "/etc/timezone" to rootfs at "/etc/timezone"

[themysterian-sec]

Hi,
I would like to test EMBA for the first time. I had to comment the "$DEBUG_SCRIPT" line in helpers/helpers_emba_load_strict_settings.sh
as it won't install properly (./helpers/helpers_emba_load_strict_settings.sh: line 24: DEBUG_SCRIPT: unbound variable
). But Setup finishes then without errors.
Installation on my Kali Linux up-to-date version 2022.4. It is a Intel 64Bit Laptop.

When starting emba with
./emba -l ./log -f /home/pentest/Downloads/Hirschmann/m100geL2P.bin
I receive an error and the process stops.

Error Message at the bottom:

[+] Dependency check

[*] Elementary:
user permissions
user permission - ok
configuration directory - ok

[*] Necessary utils on system:
docker - ok
docker-compose - ok
MongoDB - ok
Docker Interface - ok
cve-search - testing
cve-search - ok
inotifywait - ok
notify-send - ok

[] Started kernel downloader thread with PID 13234
[] Original user: pentest
[] Notification process started with PID 13248
[] Firmware binary detected.
EMBA starts with the pre-testing phase.
EMBA is running with 1 modules in parallel and 1 threads per module.

cve-search - testing

[*] EMBA sets up the docker environment.

[*] EMBA initializes docker container.

Creating emba_emba_run ... done
Error response from daemon: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc create failed: unable to start container process: error during container init: error mounting "/etc/timezone" to rootfs at "/etc/timezone": mount /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone (via /proc/self/fd/7), flags: 0x5001: not a directory: unknown: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? Check if the specified host path exists and is the expected type
ERROR: 1
[-] EMBA failed in docker mode!
[] Final cleanup started.
[] Stopping kernel downloader thread with PID 13234
[*] Stopping EMBA PID 13248

[m-1-k-3]

The issue around the DEBUG_SCRIPT will be solved in #485

[m-1-k-3]

What is your output of the following?

└─$ file /etc/timezone
/etc/timezone: ASCII text

For testing you could remove the entry from docker-compose.yml

        - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro

[themysterian-sec]

The output is

$ file /etc/timezone
/etc/timezone: directory

Directory itself is empty

└─$ ll /etc/timezone
total 0

In the settings it is also empty

Commenting the line does the trick.

Thanks a lot!

[m-1-k-3]

ok, great to hear. Thank you for reporting. I will need to take a look at this issue again to fix it correctly.
Let's leave this issue open until we really fixed it.