From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 14:31:10 +0000

Prevent illegal memory access when checking relocs in a corrupt ELF binary.

PR 32641

Upstream-Status: Backport [https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=18cc11a2771d9e40180485da9a4fb660c03efac3]
CVE: CVE-2025-1181

Signed-off-by: Deepesh Varatharajan <Deepesh.Varatharajan@windriver.com>

diff --git a/bfd/elf-bfd.h b/bfd/elf-bfd.h
index 785a37dd7fd..d2bf8e5cbae 100644
--- a/bfd/elf-bfd.h
+++ b/bfd/elf-bfd.h
@@ -3150,6 +3150,9 @@ extern bool _bfd_elf_link_mmap_section_contents
 extern void _bfd_elf_link_munmap_section_contents
   (asection *);
 
+extern struct elf_link_hash_entry * _bfd_elf_get_link_hash_entry
+  (struct elf_link_hash_entry **, unsigned int, Elf_Internal_Shdr *);
+
 /* Large common section.  */
 extern asection _bfd_elf_large_com_section;
 
diff --git a/bfd/elf64-x86-64.c b/bfd/elf64-x86-64.c
index 32db254ba6c..2d82c6583c3 100644
--- a/bfd/elf64-x86-64.c
+++ b/bfd/elf64-x86-64.c
@@ -1744,7 +1744,7 @@ elf_x86_64_convert_load_reloc (bfd *abfd,
   bool to_reloc_pc32;
   bool abs_symbol;
   bool local_ref;
-  asection *tsec;
+  asection *tsec = NULL;
   bfd_signed_vma raddend;
   unsigned int opcode;
   unsigned int modrm;
@@ -1910,6 +1910,9 @@ elf_x86_64_convert_load_reloc (bfd *abfd,
 	return true;
     }
 
+  if (tsec == NULL)
+    return false;
+
   /* Don't convert GOTPCREL relocation against large section.  */
   if (elf_section_data (tsec) !=  NULL
       && (elf_section_flags (tsec) & SHF_X86_64_LARGE) != 0)
@@ -2206,10 +2209,7 @@ elf_x86_64_scan_relocs (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_link_info *info,
       else
 	{
 	  isym = NULL;
-	  h = sym_hashes[r_symndx - symtab_hdr->sh_info];
-	  while (h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_indirect
-		 || h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_warning)
-	    h = (struct elf_link_hash_entry *) h->root.u.i.link;
+	  h = _bfd_elf_get_link_hash_entry (sym_hashes, r_symndx, symtab_hdr);
 	}
 
       /* Check invalid x32 relocations.  */
diff --git a/bfd/elflink.c b/bfd/elflink.c
index 1f1263007c0..eafbd133ff5 100644
--- a/bfd/elflink.c
+++ b/bfd/elflink.c
@@ -96,6 +96,27 @@ _bfd_elf_link_keep_memory (struct bfd_link_info *info)
   return true;
 }
 
+struct elf_link_hash_entry *
+_bfd_elf_get_link_hash_entry (struct elf_link_hash_entry **  sym_hashes,
+			      unsigned int                   symndx,
+			      Elf_Internal_Shdr *            symtab_hdr)
+{
+  if (symndx < symtab_hdr->sh_info)
+    return NULL;
+
+  struct elf_link_hash_entry *h = sym_hashes[symndx - symtab_hdr->sh_info];
+
+  /* The hash might be empty.  See PR 32641 for an example of this.  */
+  if (h == NULL)
+    return NULL;
+
+  while (h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_indirect
+	 || h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_warning)
+    h = (struct elf_link_hash_entry *) h->root.u.i.link;
+
+  return h;
+}
+
 static struct elf_link_hash_entry *
 get_ext_sym_hash (struct elf_reloc_cookie *cookie, unsigned long r_symndx)
 {
@@ -108,6 +129,9 @@ get_ext_sym_hash (struct elf_reloc_cookie *cookie, unsigned long r_symndx)
     {
       h = cookie->sym_hashes[r_symndx - cookie->extsymoff];
 
+      if (h == NULL)
+	return NULL;
+
       while (h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_indirect
 	     || h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_warning)
 	h = (struct elf_link_hash_entry *) h->root.u.i.link;
diff --git a/bfd/elfxx-x86.c b/bfd/elfxx-x86.c
index 8e5a005fd36..832a5495eb1 100644
--- a/bfd/elfxx-x86.c
+++ b/bfd/elfxx-x86.c
@@ -973,15 +973,7 @@ _bfd_x86_elf_check_relocs (bfd *abfd,
 	  goto error_return;
 	}
 
-      if (r_symndx < symtab_hdr->sh_info)
-	h = NULL;
-      else
-	{
-	  h = sym_hashes[r_symndx - symtab_hdr->sh_info];
-	  while (h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_indirect
-		 || h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_warning)
-	    h = (struct elf_link_hash_entry *) h->root.u.i.link;
-	}
+      h = _bfd_elf_get_link_hash_entry (sym_hashes, r_symndx, symtab_hdr);
 
       if (X86_NEED_DYNAMIC_RELOC_TYPE_P (is_x86_64, r_type)
 	  && NEED_DYNAMIC_RELOCATION_P (is_x86_64, info, true, h, sec,
@@ -1209,10 +1201,12 @@ _bfd_x86_elf_link_relax_section (bfd *abfd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
       else
 	{
 	  /* Get H and SEC for GENERATE_DYNAMIC_RELOCATION_P below.  */
-	  h = sym_hashes[r_symndx - symtab_hdr->sh_info];
-	  while (h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_indirect
-		 || h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_warning)
-	    h = (struct elf_link_hash_entry *) h->root.u.i.link;
+	  h = _bfd_elf_get_link_hash_entry (sym_hashes, r_symndx, symtab_hdr);
+	  if (h == NULL)
+	    {
+	      /* FIXMEL: Issue an error message ?  */
+	      continue;
+	    }
 
 	  if (h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_defined
 	      || h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_defweak)