Invalid version info resource format

ID PE031 Level CRITICAL Category Format

Description

Invalid VERSIONINFO resource format. The software was not able to fully parse the VERSIONINFO resource and will provide a more detailed message of the underlying problem.

Windows Explorer and other file version info viewers may not be able to show the version information correctly.

Mitigation

If using Visual C++:

Arguments

This rule has the following output arguments:

  • resource_lang - Affected VERSIONINFO resource language integral code
  • resource_lang_tag - Affected VERSIONINFO resource language tag (e.g. en, nl-NL or en-US)
  • resource_lang_location - Affected VERSIONINFO resource language location (e.g. Spain, neutral or process_default)
  • message - Underlying error message