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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2017-11-01 15:21:46 +0000
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2017-11-01 15:21:46 +0000
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Prevent illegal memory accesses when attempting to read excessively large COFF line number tables.
PR 22376 * coffcode.h (coff_slurp_line_table): Check for an excessively large line number count.
-rw-r--r--bfd/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--bfd/coffcode.h8
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 60fbc9c..35308ab 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
2017-11-01 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+ PR 22376
+ * coffcode.h (coff_slurp_line_table): Check for an excessively
+ large line number count.
+
+2017-11-01 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+
PR 22373
* peicode.h (pe_bfd_read_buildid): Revise check for invalid size
and offset in light of further possible bogus values.
diff --git a/bfd/coffcode.h b/bfd/coffcode.h
index 21308de..6da0afa 100644
--- a/bfd/coffcode.h
+++ b/bfd/coffcode.h
@@ -4578,6 +4578,14 @@ coff_slurp_line_table (bfd *abfd, asection *asect)
BFD_ASSERT (asect->lineno == NULL);
+ if (asect->lineno_count > asect->size)
+ {
+ _bfd_error_handler
+ (_("%B: warning: line number count (%#lx) exceeds section size (%#lx)"),
+ abfd, (unsigned long) asect->lineno_count, (unsigned long) asect->size);
+ return FALSE;
+ }
+
amt = ((bfd_size_type) asect->lineno_count + 1) * sizeof (alent);
lineno_cache = (alent *) bfd_alloc (abfd, amt);
if (lineno_cache == NULL)