PR 34327 More out of bounds accesses in reloc special functions
Project / Subsystem
binutils / binutils
Date
2026-07-02
Proposer
Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Source type
public_inbox
Consensus
Proposed
Sentiment
—/10
Technical tradeoffs
- • Increases robustness by adding checks, potentially rejecting more malformed object files.
- • Improves security by preventing out-of-bounds reads.
All attributes
- project
- binutils
- subsystem
- binutils
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- —
- discussion_id
- akXWTenS9zB13ypw@squeak.grove.modra.org
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- public_inbox
- title
- PR 34327 More out of bounds accesses in reloc special functions
- headline
- PR 34327 More out of bounds accesses in reloc special functions
- tldr
- Addresses more instances of out-of-bounds reads in relocation functions across various targets.
- proposer
- Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
- consensus
- Proposed
- outcome
- proposed
- sentiment_score
- —
- technical_tradeoffs
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- • Increases robustness by adding checks, potentially rejecting more malformed object files.
- • Improves security by preventing out-of-bounds reads.
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- —
- series_role
- standalone
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- []
- tags
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- • security
- • bugfix
- • elf
- • relocations
- • coff
- bugzilla_url
- —
- date
- 2026-07-02T00:00:00.000Z
PR 34327 More out of bounds accesses in reloc special functions
This patch series extends the bug fixes from a previous submission, addressing additional locations within relocation special functions that were susceptible to out-of-bounds reads. It applies sanity checks for relocation offsets and performs cleanup, such as removing unnecessary casts, across a range of architectures including ARM, MIPS, SPARC, and others.