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authorAlan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>2020-02-26 15:14:48 +1030
committerAlan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>2020-02-26 15:21:33 +1030
commitcc4c4f40a2b46e355684e450f59154cece591c39 (patch)
treeee6840b779fe93301515e25dccebeee163a484bf /bfd
parent450a1bfc7f60d4b37615a7d78aac83ca73cae159 (diff)
downloadbinutils-gdb-cc4c4f40a2b46e355684e450f59154cece591c39.tar.gz
Re: vms buffer overflows and large memory allocation
git commit c893ce360a changed buffer management, in the process introducing a bug on an error return path. * vms-lib.c (vms_lib_read_index): Release correct buffer.
Diffstat (limited to 'bfd')
-rw-r--r--bfd/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--bfd/vms-lib.c8
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 3b69b806560..0847dd5be71 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2020-02-26 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
+ * vms-lib.c (vms_lib_read_index): Release correct buffer.
+
+2020-02-26 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
+
* elf32-rx.c (rx_elf_relocate_section): Use bfd_malloc rather than
malloc. Check for NULL return from bfd_malloc.
(rx_table_find, rx_table_map): Likewise.
diff --git a/bfd/vms-lib.c b/bfd/vms-lib.c
index 87f865864c6..29e213f8c39 100644
--- a/bfd/vms-lib.c
+++ b/bfd/vms-lib.c
@@ -416,6 +416,7 @@ vms_lib_read_index (bfd *abfd, int idx, unsigned int *nbrel)
unsigned int vbn;
ufile_ptr filesize;
size_t amt;
+ struct carsym *csbuf;
struct carsym_mem csm;
/* Read index desription. */
@@ -447,7 +448,7 @@ vms_lib_read_index (bfd *abfd, int idx, unsigned int *nbrel)
csm.max = csm.limit;
if (_bfd_mul_overflow (csm.max, sizeof (struct carsym), &amt))
return NULL;
- csm.idx = bfd_alloc (abfd, amt);
+ csm.idx = csbuf = bfd_alloc (abfd, amt);
if (csm.idx == NULL)
return NULL;
@@ -455,12 +456,12 @@ vms_lib_read_index (bfd *abfd, int idx, unsigned int *nbrel)
vbn = bfd_getl32 (idd.vbn);
if (vbn != 0 && !vms_traverse_index (abfd, vbn, &csm))
{
- if (csm.realloced && csm.idx != NULL)
+ if (csm.realloced)
free (csm.idx);
/* Note: in case of error, we can free what was allocated on the
BFD's objalloc. */
- bfd_release (abfd, csm.idx);
+ bfd_release (abfd, csbuf);
return NULL;
}
@@ -468,7 +469,6 @@ vms_lib_read_index (bfd *abfd, int idx, unsigned int *nbrel)
{
/* There are more entries than the first estimate. Allocate on
the BFD's objalloc. */
- struct carsym *csbuf;
csbuf = bfd_alloc (abfd, csm.nbr * sizeof (struct carsym));
if (csbuf == NULL)
return NULL;