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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2019-11-21 10:54:20 +0000
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2019-11-21 10:54:20 +0000
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Fix potential buffer overrun in objcopy's note merging code.
* objcopy.c (merge_gnu_build_notes): Allow for the possibility that the new notes might actually be larger than the original notes.
Diffstat (limited to 'binutils')
-rw-r--r--binutils/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--binutils/objcopy.c11
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index 10ab37c..2d1a003 100644
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2019-11-21 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+ * objcopy.c (merge_gnu_build_notes): Allow for the possibility
+ that the new notes might actually be larger than the original
+ notes.
+
2019-11-21 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
* testsuite/lib/binutils-common.exp (is_pecoff_format): Rewrite
diff --git a/binutils/objcopy.c b/binutils/objcopy.c
index f682fbe..6e614b1 100644
--- a/binutils/objcopy.c
+++ b/binutils/objcopy.c
@@ -2460,7 +2460,9 @@ merge_gnu_build_notes (bfd * abfd,
bfd_vma prev_start = 0;
bfd_vma prev_end = 0;
- new = new_contents = xmalloc (size);
+ /* Not sure how, but the notes might grow in size.
+ (eg see PR 1774507). Allow for this here. */
+ new = new_contents = xmalloc (size * 2);
for (pnote = pnotes, old = contents;
pnote < pnotes_end;
pnote ++)
@@ -2527,8 +2529,11 @@ merge_gnu_build_notes (bfd * abfd,
#endif
new_size = new - new_contents;
- memcpy (contents, new_contents, new_size);
- size = new_size;
+ if (new_size < size)
+ {
+ memcpy (contents, new_contents, new_size);
+ size = new_size;
+ }
free (new_contents);
done: