This patch to libbacktrace, by Roland McGrath, avoids crashing if an
ELF file has no section headers. Bootstrapped and ran libbacktrace
testsuite on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. This fixes
https://github.com/ianlancetaylor/libbacktrace/issues/41. Committed
to master.
Ian
2020-05-09 Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
* elf.c (elf_add): Bail early if there are no section headers at all.
diff --git a/libbacktrace/elf.c b/libbacktrace/elf.c
index 1216af86fd9..80a00506bd6 100644
--- a/libbacktrace/elf.c
+++ b/libbacktrace/elf.c
@@ -2781,6 +2781,9 @@ elf_add (struct backtrace_state *state, const char
*filename, int descriptor,
backtrace_release_view (state, &shdr_view, error_callback, data);
}
+ if (shnum == 0 || shstrndx == 0)
+ goto fail;
+
/* To translate PC to file/line when using DWARF, we need to find
the .debug_info and .debug_line sections. */