buffer overflow in process_sht_group_entries
Alan Modra
amodra@gmail.com
Sun Aug 17 06:32:26 GMT 2025
An oss-fuzz testcase with a SHT_GROUP section named .debug managed to
break objcopy --compress-debug-sections. The underlying problem is
that SEC_DEBUGGING is set by section name tests, thus the SHT_GROUP
section gets compressed. The compressed section data is smaller than
the original section sh_size, and process_sht_group_entries tries to
look at sh_size worth of entries. The patch fixes this mess by simply
not setting SEC_DEBUGGING on SHT_GROUP sections.
Note that it isn't correct to restrict SEC_DEBUGGING to SHT_PROGBITS
sections, as that will break processor/os special sections for debug.
eg. SHT_MIPS_DEBUG.
* elf.c (_bfd_elf_make_section_from_shdr): Don't set
SEC_DEBUGGING on SEC_GROUP sections no matter their name.
diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index 4051f2f9329..84a220f01cc 100644
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -957,7 +957,7 @@ _bfd_elf_make_section_from_shdr (bfd *abfd,
break;
}
- if ((flags & SEC_ALLOC) == 0)
+ if ((flags & (SEC_ALLOC | SEC_GROUP)) == 0)
{
/* The debugging sections appear to be recognized only by name,
not any sort of flag. Their SEC_ALLOC bits are cleared. */
--
Alan Modra
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