[binutils-gdb] xcofflink buffer overflows

Alan Modra amodra@sourceware.org
Sat Feb 28 09:56:58 GMT 2026


https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=c2bf7de1eb77a91d7a3c86d56408bf57de540faf

commit c2bf7de1eb77a91d7a3c86d56408bf57de540faf
Author: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Feb 28 13:16:40 2026 +1030

    xcofflink buffer overflows
    
    This fixes two fuzzed object file out-of-bounds accesses.
    
            * xcofflink.c (xcoff_link_add_symbols): Properly bounds check
            XTY_LD x_scnlen index.  Sanity check r_symndx before using it
            to index sym hashes.

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

diff --git a/bfd/xcofflink.c b/bfd/xcofflink.c
index fde21c9f958..1781182fa6a 100644
--- a/bfd/xcofflink.c
+++ b/bfd/xcofflink.c
@@ -1908,12 +1908,9 @@ xcoff_link_add_symbols (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_link_info *info)
 	     follow its appropriate XTY_SD symbol.  The .set pseudo op can
 	     cause the XTY_LD to not follow the XTY_SD symbol. */
 	  {
-	    bool bad;
-
-	    bad = false;
-	    if (aux.x_csect.x_scnlen.u64
-		>= (size_t) (esym - (bfd_byte *) obj_coff_external_syms (abfd)))
-	      bad = true;
+	    bool bad = (aux.x_csect.x_scnlen.u64
+			>= ((esym - (bfd_byte *) obj_coff_external_syms (abfd))
+			    / symesz));
 	    if (! bad)
 	      {
 		section = xcoff_data (abfd)->csects[aux.x_csect.x_scnlen.u64];
@@ -2279,6 +2276,7 @@ xcoff_link_add_symbols (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_link_info *info)
 		 functions imported from dynamic objects.  */
 	      if (info->output_bfd->xvec == abfd->xvec
 		  && *rel_csect != bfd_und_section_ptr
+		  && (unsigned long) rel->r_symndx < obj_raw_syment_count (abfd)
 		  && obj_xcoff_sym_hashes (abfd)[rel->r_symndx] != NULL)
 		{
 		  struct xcoff_link_hash_entry *h;


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