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Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/patchelf.cc | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/patchelf.cc b/src/patchelf.cc index 855243a..cd46f7e 100644 --- a/src/patchelf.cc +++ b/src/patchelf.cc @@ -397,10 +397,13 @@ ElfFile<ElfFileParamNames>::ElfFile(FileContents fileContents) error("wrong ELF type"); if ((size_t) (rdi(hdr->e_phoff) + rdi(hdr->e_phnum) * rdi(hdr->e_phentsize)) > fileContents->size()) - error("missing program headers"); + error("program header table out of bounds"); + + if (rdi(hdr->e_shnum) == 0) + error("no section headers. The input file is probably a statically linked, self-decompressing binary"); if ((size_t) (rdi(hdr->e_shoff) + rdi(hdr->e_shnum) * rdi(hdr->e_shentsize)) > fileContents->size()) - error("missing section headers"); + error("section header table out of bounds"); if (rdi(hdr->e_phentsize) != sizeof(Elf_Phdr)) error("program headers have wrong size"); @@ -562,8 +565,12 @@ template<ElfFileParams> Elf_Shdr & ElfFile<ElfFileParamNames>::findSection(const SectionName & sectionName) { Elf_Shdr * shdr = findSection2(sectionName); - if (!shdr) - error("cannot find section '" + sectionName + "'"); + if (!shdr) { + std::string extraMsg = ""; + if (sectionName == ".interp" || sectionName == ".dynamic" || sectionName == ".dynstr") + extraMsg = ". The input file is most likely statically linked"; + error("cannot find section '" + sectionName + "'" + extraMsg); + } return *shdr; } |