From 28e817cc440bce73691c03e01860089a0954a837 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Clifton Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 12:25:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Fix a heap use after free memory access fault when displaying error messages about malformed archives. PR 14049 * readelf.c (process_archive): Use arch.file_name in error messages until the qualified name is available. --- diff -urNp a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog --- a/binutils/ChangeLog 2019-06-06 00:06:39.330000000 +0800 +++ b/binutils/ChangeLog 2019-06-06 00:08:54.420000000 +0800 @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2019-01-09 Nick Clifton + PR 14049 + * readelf.c (process_archive): Use arch.file_name in error + messages until the qualified name is available. + 2018-07-18 Nick Clifton 2.31.1 Release point. diff -urNp a/binutils/readelf.c b/binutils/readelf.c --- a/binutils/readelf.c 2019-06-06 00:06:39.100000000 +0800 +++ b/binutils/readelf.c 2019-06-06 00:17:32.740000000 +0800 @@ -19088,7 +19088,7 @@ process_archive (Filedata * filedata, bf /* Read the next archive header. */ if (fseek (filedata->handle, arch.next_arhdr_offset, SEEK_SET) != 0) { - error (_("%s: failed to seek to next archive header\n"), filedata->file_name); + error (_("%s: failed to seek to next archive header\n"), arch.file_name); return FALSE; } got = fread (&arch.arhdr, 1, sizeof arch.arhdr, filedata->handle); @@ -19096,7 +19096,10 @@ process_archive (Filedata * filedata, bf { if (got == 0) break; - error (_("%s: failed to read archive header\n"), filedata->file_name); + /* PR 24049 - we cannot use filedata->file_name as this will + have already been freed. */ + error (_("%s: failed to read archive header\n"), arch.file_name); + ret = FALSE; break; } @@ -19116,7 +19119,7 @@ process_archive (Filedata * filedata, bf name = get_archive_member_name (&arch, &nested_arch); if (name == NULL) { - error (_("%s: bad archive file name\n"), filedata->file_name); + error (_("%s: bad archive file name\n"), arch.file_name); ret = FALSE; break; } @@ -19125,7 +19128,7 @@ process_archive (Filedata * filedata, bf qualified_name = make_qualified_name (&arch, &nested_arch, name); if (qualified_name == NULL) { - error (_("%s: bad archive file name\n"), filedata->file_name); + error (_("%s: bad archive file name\n"), arch.file_name); ret = FALSE; break; } @@ -19171,7 +19174,7 @@ process_archive (Filedata * filedata, bf if (nested_arch.file == NULL) { error (_("%s: contains corrupt thin archive: %s\n"), - filedata->file_name, name); + qualified_name, name); ret = FALSE; break; }