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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2017-04-28 11:21:53 +0100
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2017-04-28 11:21:53 +0100
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Fix heap-buffer address violation when reading version data from a corrupt binary.
PR binutils/21437 * readelf.c (process_version_sections): Check for underflow when computing the start address of the auxillary version data.
Diffstat (limited to 'binutils')
-rw-r--r--binutils/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--binutils/readelf.c5
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index 951673b..8bb1fc5 100644
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
2017-04-28 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+ PR binutils/21437
+ * readelf.c (process_version_sections): Check for underflow when
+ computing the start address of the auxillary version data.
+
+2017-04-28 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+
PR binutils/21438
* dwarf.c (process_extended_line_op): Do not assume that the
string extracted from the section is NUL terminated.
diff --git a/binutils/readelf.c b/binutils/readelf.c
index b57e1e0..72f9dda 100644
--- a/binutils/readelf.c
+++ b/binutils/readelf.c
@@ -10178,8 +10178,9 @@ process_version_sections (FILE * file)
printf (_(" Index: %d Cnt: %d "),
ent.vd_ndx, ent.vd_cnt);
- /* Check for overflow. */
- if (ent.vd_aux + sizeof (* eaux) > (size_t) (endbuf - vstart))
+ /* Check for overflow and underflow. */
+ if (ent.vd_aux + sizeof (* eaux) > (size_t) (endbuf - vstart)
+ || (vstart + ent.vd_aux < vstart))
break;
vstart += ent.vd_aux;