Landing: 29f50f5760e9
Project / Subsystem
binutils / readelf
Date
2026-07-16
Author
Alan Modra <amodra@sourceware.org>
Commit
29f50f5760e97d77d4f0fac572f1237bfd647398
Source
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- readelf: Save and dump original section header values.
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- readelf now saves and displays original section header values, fixing potential buffer overflow and improving error handling.
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- Alan Modra <amodra@sourceware.org>
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- • readelf
- • ELF
- • security
- • error handling
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- 2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
readelf now saves and displays the original section header values, which was previously missing. This change addresses a potential buffer overflow vulnerability in free_filedata by ensuring proper allocation and handling of section header data.
It also improves error reporting for memory allocation failures.