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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2017-09-01 09:57:44 +0100
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2017-09-01 09:57:44 +0100
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Fix buffer overrun when parsing an ELF attribute string that is not NUL terminated.
PR 22058 * elf-attrs.c (_bfd_elf_parse_attributes): Ensure that the attribute buffer is NUL terminated.
Diffstat (limited to 'bfd')
-rw-r--r--bfd/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--bfd/elf-attrs.c4
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 368b558..e0dd88f 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2017-09-01 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+ PR 22058
+ * elf-attrs.c (_bfd_elf_parse_attributes): Ensure that the
+ attribute buffer is NUL terminated.
+
2017-08-31 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
PR 22047
diff --git a/bfd/elf-attrs.c b/bfd/elf-attrs.c
index 759da6e..761a4ce 100644
--- a/bfd/elf-attrs.c
+++ b/bfd/elf-attrs.c
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ _bfd_elf_parse_attributes (bfd *abfd, Elf_Internal_Shdr * hdr)
/* PR 17512: file: 2844a11d. */
if (hdr->sh_size == 0)
return;
- contents = (bfd_byte *) bfd_malloc (hdr->sh_size);
+ contents = (bfd_byte *) bfd_malloc (hdr->sh_size + 1);
if (!contents)
return;
if (!bfd_get_section_contents (abfd, hdr->bfd_section, contents, 0,
@@ -447,6 +447,8 @@ _bfd_elf_parse_attributes (bfd *abfd, Elf_Internal_Shdr * hdr)
free (contents);
return;
}
+ /* Ensure that the buffer is NUL terminated. */
+ contents[hdr->sh_size] = 0;
p = contents;
p_end = p + hdr->sh_size;
std_sec = get_elf_backend_data (abfd)->obj_attrs_vendor;