From f6b0f53a36820da91eadfa9f466c22f92e4256e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alan Modra Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 09:03:37 +1030 Subject: [PATCH] PR 33455 SEGV in vfinfo at ldmisc.c:527 A reloc howto set up with EMPTY_HOWTO has a NULL name. More than one place emitting diagnostics assumes a reloc howto won't have a NULL name. PR 33455 * coffcode.h (coff_slurp_reloc_table): Don't allow a howto with a NULL name. --- bfd/coffcode.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Upstream-Status: Backport [https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=f6b0f53a36820da91eadfa9f466c22f92e4256e0] CVE: CVE-2025-11840 Signed-off-by: Yash Shinde diff --git a/bfd/coffcode.h b/bfd/coffcode.h index 1e5acc0032c..ce1e39131b4 100644 --- a/bfd/coffcode.h +++ b/bfd/coffcode.h @@ -5345,7 +5345,7 @@ coff_slurp_reloc_table (bfd * abfd, sec_ptr asect, asymbol ** symbols) RTYPE2HOWTO (cache_ptr, &dst); #endif /* RELOC_PROCESSING */ - if (cache_ptr->howto == NULL) + if (cache_ptr->howto == NULL || cache_ptr->howto->name == NULL) { _bfd_error_handler /* xgettext:c-format */ -- 2.43.7