binutils: Fix CVE-2025-1178

Prevent an abort in the bfd linker when attempting to
generate dynamic relocs for a corrupt input file.

PR 32638

Backport a patch from upstream to fix CVE-2025-1178
Upstream-Status: Backport from [https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=patch;h=75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0]

Signed-off-by: Deepesh Varatharajan <Deepesh.Varatharajan@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.38.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.38.inc
index 26d0b570f3c95cbbea6a384987ffd754e14433b6..82dd5c9eb67e358ed72288689b4e7bf8727ceff9 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.38.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.38.inc
@@ -73,5 +73,6 @@ SRC_URI = "\
      file://0036-CVE-2023-39130.patch \
      file://0037-CVE-2024-53589.patch \
      file://0038-CVE-2025-0840.patch \
+     file://0039-CVE-2025-1178.patch \
 "
 S  = "${WORKDIR}/git"

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/0039-CVE-2025-1178.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/0039-CVE-2025-1178.patch
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..9d2054a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/0039-CVE-2025-1178.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+From 75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 13:26:51 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] Prevent an abort in the bfd linker when attempting to
+ generate dynamic relocs for a corrupt input file.
+
+PR 32638
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=patch;h=75086e9de1707281172cc77f178e7949a4414ed0]
+CVE: CVE-2025-1178
+
+Signed-off-by: Deepesh Varatharajan <Deepesh.Varatharajan@windriver.com>
+
+diff --git a/bfd/elf64-x86-64.c b/bfd/elf64-x86-64.c
+index 970379de..cbd16abc 100644
+--- a/bfd/elf64-x86-64.c
++++ b/bfd/elf64-x86-64.c
+@@ -4575,6 +4575,15 @@ elf_x86_64_finish_dynamic_symbol (bfd *output_bfd,
+ 
+       if (generate_dynamic_reloc)
+       {
++        /* If the relgot section has not been created, then
++           generate an error instead of a reloc.  cf PR 32638.  */
++        if (relgot == NULL || relgot->size == 0)
++          {
++            info->callbacks->einfo (_("%F%pB: Unable to generate dynamic relocs because a suitable section does not exist\n"),
++                                      output_bfd);
++            return false;
++          }
++        
+         if (relative_reloc_name != NULL
+             && htab->params->report_relative_reloc)
+           _bfd_x86_elf_link_report_relative_reloc