The Cisco device could not be extracted

[ojuanjo]

When I go to emulate a Cisco device, it shows file extraction issue, how can this be fixed：

/FirmAE# ./run.sh -c cisco firmwares/cat9k_iosxe.17.11.01.SPA.bin
[*] firmwares/cat9k_iosxe.17.11.01.SPA.bin emulation start!!!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./sources/extractor/extractor.py", line 780, in
main()
File "./sources/extractor/extractor.py", line 777, in main
extract.extract()
File "./sources/extractor/extractor.py", line 203, in extract
self._extract_item(item)
File "./sources/extractor/extractor.py", line 211, in _extract_item
ExtractionItem(self, path, 0, None, self.debug).extract()
File "./sources/extractor/extractor.py", line 474, in extract
self._check_recursive(module, entry)
File "./sources/extractor/extractor.py", line 730, in _check_recursive
if new_item.extract():
File "./sources/extractor/extractor.py", line 474, in extract
self._check_recursive(module, entry)
File "./sources/extractor/extractor.py", line 729, in _check_recursive
self.debug)
File "./sources/extractor/extractor.py", line 244, in init
host=self.extractor.database)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/psycopg2/init.py", line 122, in connect
conn = _connect(dsn, connection_factory=connection_factory, **kwasync)
KeyboardInterrupt

[pr0v3rbs]

It seems your PostgreSQL service has not started (the psycopg2 connection failed), check out your PostgreSQL service.

[ojuanjo]

But simulating another device (in your dataset) doesn't have this problem, it's not in your experimental dataset, and I didn't create a separate database, I don't know what the database it is connected to, and I don't quite understand how to check it to fix it

[pr0v3rbs]

I checked your cisco firmware, and the size of the firmware is extremely large. The FirmAE extracts firmware leveraging the binwalk with custom codes, however, because of the large file size, the timeout is occurred. (https://github.com/pr0v3rbs/FirmAE/blob/master/run.sh#L107-L109)

You can increase the time to wait until successfully extract the file-system from the firmware, or you can just make your own custom firmware file from the original firmware. And run with custom firmware.