[binutils-gdb] Fix heap-buffer address violation when reading version data from a corrupt binary.

Nick Clifton nickc@sourceware.org
Fri Apr 28 10:22:00 GMT 2017


https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=4e3afec278d1fb55b983751d02119f65566bd094

commit 4e3afec278d1fb55b983751d02119f65566bd094
Author: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Apr 28 11:21:53 2017 +0100

    Fix heap-buffer address violation when reading version data from a corrupt binary.
    
    	PR binutils/21437
    	* readelf.c (process_version_sections): Check for underflow when
    	computing the start address of the auxillary version data.

Diff:
---
 binutils/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
 binutils/readelf.c | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index 951673b..8bb1fc5 100644
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2017-04-28  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
 
+	PR binutils/21437
+	* readelf.c (process_version_sections): Check for underflow when
+	computing the start address of the auxillary version data.
+
+2017-04-28  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
 	PR binutils/21438
 	* dwarf.c (process_extended_line_op): Do not assume that the
 	string extracted from the section is NUL terminated.
diff --git a/binutils/readelf.c b/binutils/readelf.c
index b57e1e0..72f9dda 100644
--- a/binutils/readelf.c
+++ b/binutils/readelf.c
@@ -10178,8 +10178,9 @@ process_version_sections (FILE * file)
 		printf (_("  Index: %d  Cnt: %d  "),
 			ent.vd_ndx, ent.vd_cnt);
 
-		/* Check for overflow.  */
-		if (ent.vd_aux + sizeof (* eaux) > (size_t) (endbuf - vstart))
+		/* Check for overflow and underflow.  */
+		if (ent.vd_aux + sizeof (* eaux) > (size_t) (endbuf - vstart)
+		    || (vstart + ent.vd_aux < vstart))
 		  break;
 
 		vstart += ent.vd_aux;



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