diff --git a/src/libmoex/node/loadcmd/LoadCommand_SYMTAB.h b/src/libmoex/node/loadcmd/LoadCommand_SYMTAB.h
index dfdb8a1..aaaecc8 100644
--- a/src/libmoex/node/loadcmd/LoadCommand_SYMTAB.h
+++ b/src/libmoex/node/loadcmd/LoadCommand_SYMTAB.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include "libmoex/node/LoadCommand.h"
 #include "libmoex/node/Common.h"
 #include "libmoex/node/MachHeader.h"
+#include <cstring>
 
 MOEX_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
 
@@ -95,9 +96,34 @@ class LoadCommand_LC_SYMTAB : public LoadCommandImpl<qv_symtab_command>{
     }
 
     std::string GetStringByStrX(uint32_t strx){
-        char * stroffset = (char*)GetStringTableOffsetAddress();
-        std::string name(stroffset + strx);
-        return name;
+        char * table = (char*)GetStringTableOffsetAddress();
+        const uint32_t strsize = cmd_->strsize;
+        if (strx >= strsize) {
+            return std::string();
+        }
+        const char * start = table + strx;
+
+        // Never read past the string table extent or the mapped file: a
+        // truncated or crafted string table may lack a terminating NUL.
+        std::size_t max_len = static_cast<std::size_t>(strsize - strx);
+        auto ctx = header_->ctx();
+        if (ctx) {
+            const char * file_start = static_cast<const char*>(ctx->file_start);
+            const char * file_end = file_start + ctx->file_size;
+            if (start < file_start || start >= file_end) {
+                return std::string();
+            }
+            const std::size_t max_in_file = static_cast<std::size_t>(file_end - start);
+            if (max_in_file < max_len) {
+                max_len = max_in_file;
+            }
+        }
+
+        const char * nul = static_cast<const char*>(memchr(start, '\0', max_len));
+        if (nul != nullptr) {
+            return std::string(start, nul);
+        }
+        return std::string(start, start + max_len);
     }
 
 public:
diff --git a/src/libmoex/viewnode/ViewNodeDumper.cpp b/src/libmoex/viewnode/ViewNodeDumper.cpp
index 9aef6ef..d6b6d94 100644
--- a/src/libmoex/viewnode/ViewNodeDumper.cpp
+++ b/src/libmoex/viewnode/ViewNodeDumper.cpp
@@ -57,6 +57,47 @@ static std::string SanitizeCell(const std::string &input) {
     return out;
 }
 
+// Returns a valid UTF-8 copy of the input, replacing any malformed byte with
+// '?'. Cell values can hold raw bytes from malformed/truncated binaries, and
+// the bundled nlohmann::json (3.1.2) throws on invalid UTF-8 during dump().
+static std::string ToUtf8Safe(const std::string &in) {
+    std::string out;
+    out.reserve(in.size());
+    const std::size_t n = in.size();
+    std::size_t i = 0;
+    while (i < n) {
+        const unsigned char c = static_cast<unsigned char>(in[i]);
+        if (c < 0x80) {
+            out += static_cast<char>(c);
+            ++i;
+            continue;
+        }
+        std::size_t len;
+        uint32_t min_cp;
+        if ((c & 0xE0) == 0xC0) { len = 2; min_cp = 0x80; }
+        else if ((c & 0xF0) == 0xE0) { len = 3; min_cp = 0x800; }
+        else if ((c & 0xF8) == 0xF0) { len = 4; min_cp = 0x10000; }
+        else { out += '?'; ++i; continue; }
+
+        if (i + len > n) { out += '?'; ++i; continue; }
+        uint32_t cp = c & (0x7Fu >> len);
+        bool ok = true;
+        for (std::size_t k = 1; k < len; ++k) {
+            const unsigned char cc = static_cast<unsigned char>(in[i + k]);
+            if ((cc & 0xC0) != 0x80) { ok = false; break; }
+            cp = (cp << 6) | (cc & 0x3Fu);
+        }
+        if (!ok || cp < min_cp || cp > 0x10FFFFu || (cp >= 0xD800u && cp <= 0xDFFFu)) {
+            out += '?';
+            ++i;
+            continue;
+        }
+        out.append(in, i, len);
+        i += len;
+    }
+    return out;
+}
+
 static bool NodeHasImmediateContent(ViewNode *node) {
     const auto &table = node->table();
     const auto &binary = node->binary();
@@ -172,7 +213,7 @@ static Json TableToJson(const TableViewDataPtr &table, const ViewNodeDumpOptions
     if (IncludeTableHeaders(options)) {
         j["headers"] = Json::array();
         for (const auto &header : table->headers) {
-            j["headers"].push_back(header->data);
+            j["headers"].push_back(ToUtf8Safe(header->data));
         }
     }
 
@@ -194,13 +235,13 @@ static Json TableToJson(const TableViewDataPtr &table, const ViewNodeDumpOptions
         r["values"] = Json::array();
         r["cells"] = Json::object();
         for (const auto &item : row->items) {
-            r["values"].push_back(item->data);
+            r["values"].push_back(ToUtf8Safe(item->data));
         }
         for (size_t col = 0; col < row->items.size(); ++col) {
             const std::string key = col < table->headers.size()
-                    ? table->headers[col]->data
+                    ? ToUtf8Safe(table->headers[col]->data)
                     : ("column" + std::to_string(col));
-            r["cells"][key] = row->items[col]->data;
+            r["cells"][key] = ToUtf8Safe(row->items[col]->data);
         }
         if (row->size > 0) {
             r["byteLength"] = row->size;
@@ -251,9 +292,9 @@ static Json NodeToJson(ViewNode *node,
                        size_t child_index = 0) {
     node->Init();
     Json j;
-    j["name"] = node->GetDisplayName();
+    j["name"] = ToUtf8Safe(node->GetDisplayName());
     j["depth"] = depth;
-    j["path"] = JoinPath(path_segments);
+    j["path"] = ToUtf8Safe(JoinPath(path_segments));
     j["kind"] = ClassifyNodeKind(node);
     j["childIndex"] = child_index;
 
diff --git a/tests/regression/run_crash_regression.sh b/tests/regression/run_crash_regression.sh
index 014f28e..eb5d63a 100755
--- a/tests/regression/run_crash_regression.sh
+++ b/tests/regression/run_crash_regression.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,19 @@ if [[ ! -x "${PARSER_BIN}" ]]; then
   exit 2
 fi
 
+# Optional full app binary. When present we also run the complete view-node
+# dumper (--cli) over the malformed corpus, which exercises the rich parsing
+# layer (load commands, code signature, ObjC/Swift metadata, dyld info, ...)
+# that moex-parse alone does not reach.
+APP_BUNDLE_BIN="${ROOT_DIR}/build/MachOExplorer.app/Contents/MacOS/MachOExplorer"
+PLAIN_APP_BIN="${ROOT_DIR}/build/MachOExplorer"
+APP_BIN=""
+if [[ -x "${APP_BUNDLE_BIN}" ]]; then
+  APP_BIN="${APP_BUNDLE_BIN}"
+elif [[ -x "${PLAIN_APP_BIN}" ]]; then
+  APP_BIN="${PLAIN_APP_BIN}"
+fi
+
 TMP_DIR="$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/moex-crash-reg.XXXXXX")"
 trap 'rm -rf "${TMP_DIR}"' EXIT
 
@@ -117,9 +130,31 @@ else
   echo "[ok] valid FAT64 parsed successfully: $(basename "${valid_fat64}")"
 fi
 
+# Deep pass: run the full view-node dumper over the same corpus so the rich
+# parsing layer is also crash-tested against malformed input.
+CLI_TOTAL=0
+if [[ -n "${APP_BIN}" ]]; then
+  for f in "${TMP_DIR}"/*; do
+    for fmt in text json; do
+      CLI_TOTAL=$((CLI_TOTAL + 1))
+      set +e
+      "${APP_BIN}" --cli --format "${fmt}" "${f}" >/dev/null 2>&1
+      cli_rc=$?
+      set -e
+      if [[ "${cli_rc}" -ge 128 ]]; then
+        echo "[fail] view-node dumper crashed (signal exit=${cli_rc}, format=${fmt}) for: ${f}"
+        FAIL=1
+      fi
+    done
+  done
+  echo "[ok] view-node dumper handled corpus safely (runs=${CLI_TOTAL})"
+else
+  echo "[skip] full app binary not built; view-node dumper crash pass skipped"
+fi
+
 if [[ "${FAIL}" -ne 0 ]]; then
   echo "crash-regression: failed"
   exit 1
 fi
 
-echo "crash-regression: passed (total=${TOTAL} rejected=${REJECTED} accepted=${ACCEPTED})"
+echo "crash-regression: passed (total=${TOTAL} rejected=${REJECTED} accepted=${ACCEPTED} cli-runs=${CLI_TOTAL})"