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+From b0029dce6867de1a2828293177b0e030d2f0f03c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:00:29 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] Prevent a memory exhaustion problem when trying to read in
+ strings from a COFF binary with a corrupt string table size.
+
+ PR 22507
+ * coffgen.c (_bfd_coff_read_string_table): Check for an excessive
+ size of the external string table.
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport
+Affects binutls <= 2.29.1
+CVE: CVE-2017-17124
+Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>
+
+---
+ bfd/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
+ bfd/coffgen.c | 4 ++--
+ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+Index: git/bfd/coffgen.c
+===================================================================
+--- git.orig/bfd/coffgen.c
++++ git/bfd/coffgen.c
+@@ -1709,7 +1709,7 @@ _bfd_coff_read_string_table (bfd *abfd)
+ #endif
+ }
+
+- if (strsize < STRING_SIZE_SIZE)
++ if (strsize < STRING_SIZE_SIZE || strsize > bfd_get_file_size (abfd))
+ {
+ _bfd_error_handler
+ /* xgettext: c-format */
+Index: git/bfd/ChangeLog
+===================================================================
+--- git.orig/bfd/ChangeLog
++++ git/bfd/ChangeLog
+@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
++2017-11-28 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
++
++ PR 22507
++ * coffgen.c (_bfd_coff_read_string_table): Check for an excessive
++ size of the external string table.
++
+ 2018-03-28 Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com>
+
+ PR ld/22972