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From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Cc: Mark Harmstone <mark@harmstone.com>, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ld/PDB: fix off-by-1 in add_globals_ref()
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2023 15:47:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <88c2fb96-185d-ae27-c025-ed025ed54641@suse.com> (raw)

Copying one too many bytes can corrupt memory, detected and reported by
glibc on a 32-bit distro.
---
Nick, again I expect this wants to go on the branch as well. I'm sorry
that I didn't get to look into this earlier; I had noticed it a while
ago already. In any event I'd like to give Mark a little bit of time
to reply (if necessary), before putting it in.

--- a/ld/pdb.c
+++ b/ld/pdb.c
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ add_globals_ref (struct globals *glob, b
   g->offset = bfd_tell (sym_rec_stream);
   g->hash = hash;
   g->refcount = 1;
-  memcpy (g->data, data, len + 1);
+  memcpy (g->data, data, len);
 
   glob->num_entries++;
 

             reply	other threads:[~2023-07-07 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-07 13:47 Jan Beulich [this message]
2023-07-10 23:30 ` Mark Harmstone
2023-07-12  7:55   ` Jan Beulich
2023-07-17 12:26     ` Nick Clifton

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