From d27f4a8879b206171623fe5192dab4732f008428 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yash Shinde Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 01:50:16 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] binutils: fix CVE-2025-11840 CVE-2025-11840 PR 33455 [BUG] A 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. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33455 Upstream-Status: Backport [https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=f6b0f53a36820da91eadfa9f466c22f92e4256e0] (From OE-Core rev: d477a67f623da424c3165bde25d76152636b1f50) Signed-off-by: Yash Shinde Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman --- .../binutils/binutils-2.42.inc | 1 + .../binutils/0030-CVE-2025-11840.patch | 37 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+) create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/0030-CVE-2025-11840.patch diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.42.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.42.inc index e045ccf00d..839d31242e 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.42.inc +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.42.inc @@ -68,5 +68,6 @@ SRC_URI = "\ file://CVE-2025-11413.patch \ file://0028-CVE-2025-11494.patch \ file://0029-CVE-2025-11839.patch \ + file://0030-CVE-2025-11840.patch \ " S = "${WORKDIR}/git" diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/0030-CVE-2025-11840.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/0030-CVE-2025-11840.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3fb4db880e --- /dev/null +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/0030-CVE-2025-11840.patch @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +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 +