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From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 15:59:45 +0000
Subject: Fix illegal memory accesses in readelf when parsing
a corrupt binary.
PR binutils/21156
* readelf.c (find_section_in_set): Test for invalid section
indicies.
CVE: CVE-2017-6969
Upstream-Status: Backport [master]
Signed-off-by: Yuanjie Huang <yuanjie.huang@windriver.com>
---
binutils/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
binutils/readelf.c | 10 ++++++++--
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index bd63c8a0d8..1d840b42f9 100644
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2017-02-17 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+ PR binutils/21156
+ * readelf.c (find_section_in_set): Test for invalid section
+ indicies.
+
2017-02-13 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
PR binutils/21139
diff --git a/binutils/readelf.c b/binutils/readelf.c
index 7c158c6342..4960491c5c 100644
--- a/binutils/readelf.c
+++ b/binutils/readelf.c
@@ -675,8 +675,14 @@ find_section_in_set (const char * name, unsigned int * set)
if (set != NULL)
{
while ((i = *set++) > 0)
- if (streq (SECTION_NAME (section_headers + i), name))
- return section_headers + i;
+ {
+ /* See PR 21156 for a reproducer. */
+ if (i >= elf_header.e_shnum)
+ continue; /* FIXME: Should we issue an error message ? */
+
+ if (streq (SECTION_NAME (section_headers + i), name))
+ return section_headers + i;
+ }
}
return find_section (name);
--
2.11.0