On Wed, 2016-10-26 at 13:17 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > There are various sanity checks that depend on knowing the file size > of the underlying ELF file which we only used when mmapping the ELF file. > Although we probably won't crash if we use pread to try to read from > the file, we still might return completely bogus data structures. This > could cause us to malloc insane amounts of memory. > > Always try to get the maxsize when unknown in elf_begin.c (read_file). > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1388057
Again I didn't hear back from the original reporter whether this really solved their problem. But the change does look correct and desirable. So I have pushed this to master now. _______________________________________________ elfutils-devel mailing list -- elfutils-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org To unsubscribe send an email to elfutils-devel-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org
