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From 7ecb51549ab1ec22aba5aaf34b70323cf0b8509a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 18:58:11 +0930
Subject: [PATCH] PR25823, Use after free in bfd_hash_lookup

	PR 25823
	* peXXigen.c (_bfd_XXi_swap_sym_in <C_SECTION>): Don't use a
	pointer into strings that may be freed for section name, always
	allocate a new string.

Upstream-Status: Backport [https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=patch;h=7ecb51549ab1ec22aba5aaf34b70323cf0b8509a]
CVE: CVE-2020-16592
Signed-off-by: Chee Yang Lee <chee.yang.lee@intel.com>

---
 bfd/peXXigen.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/bfd/peXXigen.c b/bfd/peXXigen.c
index b9eeb775d9b..8aa5914acd9 100644
--- a/bfd/peXXigen.c
+++ b/bfd/peXXigen.c
@@ -177,25 +177,25 @@ _bfd_XXi_swap_sym_in (bfd * abfd, void * ext1, void * in1)
 	  int unused_section_number = 0;
 	  asection *sec;
 	  flagword flags;
+	  size_t name_len;
+	  char *sec_name;
 
 	  for (sec = abfd->sections; sec; sec = sec->next)
 	    if (unused_section_number <= sec->target_index)
 	      unused_section_number = sec->target_index + 1;
 
-	  if (name == namebuf)
+	  name_len = strlen (name) + 1;
+	  sec_name = bfd_alloc (abfd, name_len);
+	  if (sec_name == NULL)
 	    {
-	      name = (const char *) bfd_alloc (abfd, strlen (namebuf) + 1);
-	      if (name == NULL)
-		{
-		  _bfd_error_handler (_("%pB: out of memory creating name for empty section"),
-				      abfd);
-		  return;
-		}
-	      strcpy ((char *) name, namebuf);
+	      _bfd_error_handler (_("%pB: out of memory creating name "
+				    "for empty section"), abfd);
+	      return;
 	    }
+	  memcpy (sec_name, name, name_len);
 
 	  flags = SEC_HAS_CONTENTS | SEC_ALLOC | SEC_DATA | SEC_LOAD;
-	  sec = bfd_make_section_anyway_with_flags (abfd, name, flags);
+	  sec = bfd_make_section_anyway_with_flags (abfd, sec_name, flags);
 	  if (sec == NULL)
 	    {
 	      _bfd_error_handler (_("%pB: unable to create fake empty section"),
-- 
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