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From: Nick Clifton <nickc@sourceware.org>
To: bfd-cvs@sourceware.org
Subject: [binutils-gdb] Fix an illegal memory access when parsing an ELF file containing corrupt symbol version information.
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:10:12 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221019141012.417B138582BF@sourceware.org> (raw)

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=5c831a3c7f3ca98d6aba1200353311e1a1f84c70

commit 5c831a3c7f3ca98d6aba1200353311e1a1f84c70
Author: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 19 15:09:12 2022 +0100

    Fix an illegal memory access when parsing an ELF file containing corrupt symbol version information.
    
            PR 29699
            * elf.c (_bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables): Fail if the sh_info field
            of the section header is zero.

Diff:
---
 bfd/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
 bfd/elf.c     | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index c618d817ff9..06501775453 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2022-10-19  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	PR 29699
+	* elf.c (_bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables): Fail if the sh_info field
+	of the section header is zero.
+
 2022-09-09  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
 
 	PR 29532
diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index fe00e0f9189..7cd7febcf95 100644
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -8918,7 +8918,9 @@ _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables (bfd *abfd, bool default_imported_symver)
 	  bfd_set_error (bfd_error_file_too_big);
 	  goto error_return_verref;
 	}
-      elf_tdata (abfd)->verref = (Elf_Internal_Verneed *) bfd_alloc (abfd, amt);
+      if (amt == 0)
+	goto error_return_verref;
+      elf_tdata (abfd)->verref = (Elf_Internal_Verneed *) bfd_zalloc (abfd, amt);
       if (elf_tdata (abfd)->verref == NULL)
 	goto error_return_verref;

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