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From 45a0eaf77022963d639d6d19871dbab7b79703fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:02:06 +1030
Subject: [PATCH] PR23806, NULL pointer dereference in merge_strings
PR 23806
* merge.c (_bfd_add_merge_section): Don't attempt to merge
sections with ridiculously large alignments.
Upstream-Status: Backport
CVE: CVE-2018-18606
Signed-off-by: Zhixiong Chi <zhixiong.chi@windriver.com>
---
bfd/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
bfd/merge.c | 15 +++++++++++----
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 1f3fc1c..c5f7ec7 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
2018-10-23 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
+ PR 23806
+ * merge.c (_bfd_add_merge_section): Don't attempt to merge
+ sections with ridiculously large alignments.
+
+2018-10-23 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
+
PR 23804
* merge.c (_bfd_add_merge_section): Don't attempt to merge
sections where size is not a multiple of entsize.
diff --git a/bfd/merge.c b/bfd/merge.c
index 5e3bba0..7de0c88 100644
--- a/bfd/merge.c
+++ b/bfd/merge.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
as used in ELF SHF_MERGE. */
#include "sysdep.h"
+#include <limits.h>
#include "bfd.h"
#include "elf-bfd.h"
#include "libbfd.h"
@@ -385,12 +386,18 @@ _bfd_add_merge_section (bfd *abfd, void **psinfo, asection *sec,
return TRUE;
}
- align = sec->alignment_power;
- if ((sec->entsize < (unsigned) 1 << align
+#ifndef CHAR_BIT
+#define CHAR_BIT 8
+#endif
+ if (sec->alignment_power >= sizeof (align) * CHAR_BIT)
+ return TRUE;
+
+ align = 1u << sec->alignment_power;
+ if ((sec->entsize < align
&& ((sec->entsize & (sec->entsize - 1))
|| !(sec->flags & SEC_STRINGS)))
- || (sec->entsize > (unsigned) 1 << align
- && (sec->entsize & (((unsigned) 1 << align) - 1))))
+ || (sec->entsize > align
+ && (sec->entsize & (align - 1))))
{
/* Sanity check. If string character size is smaller than
alignment, then we require character size to be a power
--
2.9.3