[binutils-gdb] som.c buffer overflow

Alan Modra amodra@sourceware.org
Wed Oct 26 05:11:33 GMT 2022


https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=2f6ba62ed3825afa0d995e23d5bfe2fd8258bd00

commit 2f6ba62ed3825afa0d995e23d5bfe2fd8258bd00
Author: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 26 11:26:34 2022 +1030

    som.c buffer overflow
    
    Fuzzed object files can put random values in bfd_reloc->address,
    leading to large som_reloc_skip output.
    
            * som.c (som_write_fixups): Allow for maximal som_reloc_skip.

Diff:
---
 bfd/som.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bfd/som.c b/bfd/som.c
index 9b0a5513209..b9114e630fe 100644
--- a/bfd/som.c
+++ b/bfd/som.c
@@ -3005,10 +3005,12 @@ som_write_fixups (bfd *abfd,
 		 then dump the current buffer contents now.  Also reinitialize
 		 the relocation queue.
 
-		 No single BFD relocation could ever translate into more
-		 than 100 bytes of SOM relocations (20bytes is probably the
-		 upper limit, but leave lots of space for growth).  */
-	      if (p - tmp_space + 100 > SOM_TMP_BUFSIZE)
+		 A single BFD relocation would probably only ever
+		 translate into at most 20 bytes of SOM relocations.
+		 However with fuzzed object files and resulting silly
+		 values for "skip" below, som_reloc_skip can emit 262
+		 bytes.  Leave lots of space for growth.  */
+	      if (p - tmp_space + 512 > SOM_TMP_BUFSIZE)
 		{
 		  amt = p - tmp_space;
 		  if (bfd_bwrite ((void *) tmp_space, amt, abfd) != amt)


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