binutils: fix CVE-2025-69645

Binutils objdump contains a denial-of-service vulnerability when processing
a crafted binary with malformed DWARF debug information. A logic error in
the handling of DWARF compilation units can result in an invalid offset_size
value being used inside byte_get_little_endian, leading to an abort (SIGABRT).
A local attacker can trigger the crash by supplying a malicious input file.

(From OE-Core rev: ca101b2ff0b91630df25ee619c809e0621d41b21)

Signed-off-by: Roland Kovacs <roland.kovacs@est.tech>
[YC: The patch is referenced on the NVD page:
     https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-69645 ]
Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
This commit is contained in:
Roland Kovacs
2026-07-16 11:58:54 +02:00
committed by Paul Barker
parent 72b30efa58
commit 082c373810
2 changed files with 136 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -77,5 +77,6 @@ SRC_URI = "\
file://CVE-2025-69649.patch \
file://CVE-2025-69652.patch \
file://CVE-2026-6846.patch \
file://CVE-2025-69645.patch \
"
S = "${WORKDIR}/git"

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@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
From 3fe207e0625a76c8cba932e435762bfb5f544131 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:51:54 +1030
Subject: [PATCH] PR 33637, abort in byte_get
When DWARF5 support was added to binutils in commit 77145576fadc,
the loop over CUs in process_debug_info set do_types when finding a
DW_UT_type unit, in order to process the signature and type offset
entries. Unfortunately that broke debug_information/debug_info_p
handling, which previously was allocated and initialised for each unit
in .debug_info. debug_info_p was NULL when processing a DWARF4
.debug_types section. After the 77145576fadc change it was possible
for debug_infp_p to be non-NULL but point to zeroed data, in
particular a zeroed offset_size. A zero for offset_size led to the
byte_get_little_endian abort triggered by the fuzzer testcase.
I haven't investigated whether there is any need for a valid
offset_size when processing a non-fuzzed DWARF4 .debug_types section.
Presumably we'd have found that out in the last 6 years if that was
the case. We don't want to change debug_information[] for
.debug_types!
PR 33637
* dwarf.c (process_debug_info): Don't change DO_TYPES flag bit
depending on cu_unit_type. Instead test cu_unit_type along
with DO_TYPES to handle signature and type_offset for a type
unit. Move find_cu_tu_set_v2 call a little later.
CVE: CVE-2025-69645
Upstream-Status: Backport [https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=cdb728d4da6184631989b192f1022c219dea7677]
Note:
Backported patch differs from upstream as commit
1f7e70ddd2c49dd5442b8873dd6ef29b0a10fdc3 is not cherry-picked
just to introduce `do_flags` instead of the separate `do_type`
and `do_loc` booleans for it to apply cleanly.
Signed-off-by: Roland Kovacs <roland.kovacs@est.tech>
---
binutils/dwarf.c | 18 ++++++------------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/binutils/dwarf.c b/binutils/dwarf.c
index 615e051b2bf..836872f1b26 100644
--- a/binutils/dwarf.c
+++ b/binutils/dwarf.c
@@ -3865,8 +3865,6 @@ process_debug_info (struct dwarf_section * section,
SAFE_BYTE_GET_AND_INC (compunit.cu_version, hdrptr, 2, end_cu);
- this_set = find_cu_tu_set_v2 (cu_offset, do_types);
-
if (compunit.cu_version < 5)
{
compunit.cu_unit_type = DW_UT_compile;
@@ -3876,8 +3874,6 @@ process_debug_info (struct dwarf_section * section,
else
{
SAFE_BYTE_GET_AND_INC (compunit.cu_unit_type, hdrptr, 1, end_cu);
- do_types = (compunit.cu_unit_type == DW_UT_type);
-
SAFE_BYTE_GET_AND_INC (compunit.cu_pointer_size, hdrptr, 1, end_cu);
}
@@ -3891,6 +3887,7 @@ process_debug_info (struct dwarf_section * section,
SAFE_BYTE_GET_AND_INC (dwo_id, hdrptr, 8, end_cu);
}
+ this_set = find_cu_tu_set_v2 (cu_offset, do_types);
if (this_set == NULL)
{
abbrev_base = 0;
@@ -3947,8 +3944,6 @@ process_debug_info (struct dwarf_section * section,
SAFE_BYTE_GET_AND_INC (compunit.cu_version, hdrptr, 2, end_cu);
- this_set = find_cu_tu_set_v2 (cu_offset, do_types);
-
if (compunit.cu_version < 5)
{
compunit.cu_unit_type = DW_UT_compile;
@@ -3958,13 +3953,12 @@ process_debug_info (struct dwarf_section * section,
else
{
SAFE_BYTE_GET_AND_INC (compunit.cu_unit_type, hdrptr, 1, end_cu);
- do_types = (compunit.cu_unit_type == DW_UT_type);
-
SAFE_BYTE_GET_AND_INC (compunit.cu_pointer_size, hdrptr, 1, end_cu);
}
SAFE_BYTE_GET_AND_INC (compunit.cu_abbrev_offset, hdrptr, offset_size, end_cu);
+ this_set = find_cu_tu_set_v2 (cu_offset, do_types);
if (this_set == NULL)
{
abbrev_base = 0;
@@ -3996,7 +3990,7 @@ process_debug_info (struct dwarf_section * section,
compunit.cu_pointer_size = offset_size;
}
- if (do_types)
+ if (do_types || compunit.cu_unit_type == DW_UT_type)
{
SAFE_BYTE_GET_AND_INC (signature, hdrptr, 8, end_cu);
SAFE_BYTE_GET_AND_INC (type_offset, hdrptr, offset_size, end_cu);
@@ -4011,7 +4005,7 @@ process_debug_info (struct dwarf_section * section,
if ((do_loc || do_debug_loc || do_debug_ranges || do_debug_info)
&& num_debug_info_entries == 0
&& alloc_num_debug_info_entries > unit
- && ! do_types)
+ && !do_types)
{
free_debug_information (&debug_information[unit]);
memset (&debug_information[unit], 0, sizeof (*debug_information));
@@ -4042,7 +4036,7 @@ process_debug_info (struct dwarf_section * section,
printf (_(" Abbrev Offset: %#" PRIx64 "\n"),
compunit.cu_abbrev_offset);
printf (_(" Pointer Size: %d\n"), compunit.cu_pointer_size);
- if (do_types)
+ if (do_types || compunit.cu_unit_type == DW_UT_type)
{
printf (_(" Signature: %#" PRIx64 "\n"), signature);
printf (_(" Type Offset: %#" PRIx64 "\n"), type_offset);
@@ -4319,7 +4313,7 @@ process_debug_info (struct dwarf_section * section,
we need to process .debug_loc and .debug_ranges sections. */
if ((do_loc || do_debug_loc || do_debug_ranges || do_debug_info)
&& num_debug_info_entries == 0
- && ! do_types)
+ && !do_types)
{
if (num_units > alloc_num_debug_info_entries)
num_debug_info_entries = alloc_num_debug_info_entries;
--
2.34.1