From: Sudhir Dumbhare <[email protected]>

This patch applies the upstream fix [1], which addresses two out-of-bounds
read issues in bfd/xcofflink.c within xcoff_link_add_symbols(). The changes
shown in [2] are referenced by [3] and [4].

[1] 
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=c2bf7de1eb77a91d7a3c86d56408bf57de540faf
[2] 
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blobdiff;f=bfd/xcofflink.c;h=1781182fa6a3f92e5e91996f8b0dcf3ab192679b;hp=fde21c9f9583baff05e72e390e6bb896d02f9d43;hb=c2bf7de1eb77a91d7a3c86d56408bf57de540faf;hpb=d7f532cb3a46527
[3] https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-3441
[4] https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-3442

Reference:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-3441
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-3442
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3441.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3442.html

Signed-off-by: Sudhir Dumbhare <[email protected]>
---
 .../binutils/binutils-2.42.inc                |  1 +
 .../CVE-2026-3441_CVE-2026-3442.patch         | 50 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 51 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 
meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/CVE-2026-3441_CVE-2026-3442.patch

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.42.inc 
b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.42.inc
index 839d31242e..5d91a41648 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.42.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils-2.42.inc
@@ -69,5 +69,6 @@ SRC_URI = "\
      file://0028-CVE-2025-11494.patch \
      file://0029-CVE-2025-11839.patch \
      file://0030-CVE-2025-11840.patch \
+     file://CVE-2026-3441_CVE-2026-3442.patch \
 "
 S  = "${WORKDIR}/git"
diff --git 
a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/CVE-2026-3441_CVE-2026-3442.patch 
b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/CVE-2026-3441_CVE-2026-3442.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..28cface2c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/CVE-2026-3441_CVE-2026-3442.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+From 88a051b765a7684b24250907c2dad9fa8cd4124a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Alan Modra <[email protected]>
+Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:16:40 +1030
+Subject: [PATCH] xcofflink buffer overflows
+
+This fixes two fuzzed object file out-of-bounds accesses.
+
+       * xcofflink.c (xcoff_link_add_symbols): Properly bounds check
+       XTY_LD x_scnlen index.  Sanity check r_symndx before using it
+       to index sym hashes.
+
+CVE: CVE-2026-3441 CVE-2026-3442
+Upstream-Status: Backport 
[https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=c2bf7de1eb77a91d7a3c86d56408bf57de540faf]
+
+(cherry picked from commit c2bf7de1eb77a91d7a3c86d56408bf57de540faf)
+Signed-off-by: Sudhir Dumbhare <[email protected]>
+---
+ bfd/xcofflink.c | 10 ++++------
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/bfd/xcofflink.c b/bfd/xcofflink.c
+index e0165d202a9..88c49755c64 100644
+--- a/bfd/xcofflink.c
++++ b/bfd/xcofflink.c
+@@ -1873,12 +1873,9 @@ xcoff_link_add_symbols (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_link_info 
*info)
+            follow its appropriate XTY_SD symbol.  The .set pseudo op can
+            cause the XTY_LD to not follow the XTY_SD symbol. */
+         {
+-          bool bad;
+-
+-          bad = false;
+-          if (aux.x_csect.x_scnlen.u64
+-              >= (size_t) (esym - (bfd_byte *) obj_coff_external_syms (abfd)))
+-            bad = true;
++          bool bad = (aux.x_csect.x_scnlen.u64
++                      >= ((esym - (bfd_byte *) obj_coff_external_syms (abfd))
++                          / symesz));
+           if (! bad)
+             {
+               section = xcoff_data (abfd)->csects[aux.x_csect.x_scnlen.u64];
+@@ -2244,6 +2241,7 @@ xcoff_link_add_symbols (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_link_info 
*info)
+                functions imported from dynamic objects.  */
+             if (info->output_bfd->xvec == abfd->xvec
+                 && *rel_csect != bfd_und_section_ptr
++                && (unsigned long) rel->r_symndx < obj_raw_syment_count (abfd)
+                 && obj_xcoff_sym_hashes (abfd)[rel->r_symndx] != NULL)
+               {
+                 struct xcoff_link_hash_entry *h;
+--
+2.44.4
-- 
2.44.4

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