https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34816
Bug ID: 34816
Summary: GNU ld MIPS dereferences a NULL symbol-hash array
after an empty-symbol-table diagnostic
Product: binutils
Version: 2.46
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: ld
Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
Reporter: basavesh.shivakumar at wsu dot edu
Target Milestone: ---
Created attachment 17136
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repro
I'm reporting this bug on behalf of my team: Ananta Srikar Puranam, Emily West,
Dr. Swarn Priya, Dr. Peng Gao and Dr. Basavesh Ammanaghatta Shivakumar.
Summary
=======
An ELF32 MIPS relocation against a zero-sized symbol table is diagnosed as
malformed during relocation scanning, but GNU ld continues into final
relocation and indexes a NULL elf_sym_hashes array at elfxx-mips.c:10559;
current ASan/UBSan attributes a zero-page read, unsanitized current and
released GNU ld 2.46 SIGSEGV in all tested link modes, the one-byte
populated-symbol-table control passes, and LLD rejects the malformed trigger
cleanly.
Reproduction
============
1. Download and extract
`bfd-mips-empty-symtab-null-hash-array-reproducer.tar.gz`.
2. Run the following command with an ld.bfd or all-target `ld-new` binary that
supports the emulation used by the reproducer:
BFD=/path/to/ld-new sh repro.sh
The archive contains the fixed input files, independent controls, helper
scripts needed by `repro.sh`, and their checksums. The script uses a temporary
directory and does not modify the source tree.
Observed result
===============
An ELF32 MIPS relocation against a zero-sized symbol table is diagnosed as
malformed during relocation scanning, but GNU ld continues into final
relocation and indexes a NULL elf_sym_hashes array at elfxx-mips.c:10559;
current ASan/UBSan attributes a zero-page read, unsanitized current and
released GNU ld 2.46 SIGSEGV in all tested link modes, the one-byte
populated-symbol-table control passes, and LLD rejects the malformed trigger
cleanly.
Expected result
===============
GNU ld should either produce the correct output or reject the input with a
normal diagnostic. It should not crash, hang, execute undefined behavior, read
outside an input-derived allocation, or produce the described malformed
output.
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