1999-10-15 Andrew Haley <aph@cygnus.com>

	* dwarf1.c (parse_die): Fail to parse a die if its length is zero.

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 134f41d53e9611df3bcabb11f09b5a0880c5d917..640ec8d621c53ac624f907af30a1e88247c1b0ba 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+1999-10-15  Andrew Haley  <aph@cygnus.com>
+
+       * dwarf1.c (parse_die): Fail to parse a die if its length is zero.
+
 Sun Oct 17 17:19:00 1999  Jeffrey A Law  (law@cygnus.com)
 
        * libhppa.h (bfd_hppa_insn2fmt): Change to return an int.

diff --git a/bfd/dwarf1.c b/bfd/dwarf1.c
index 903bfc38ab5a631dad3054a2e4504f484ff92f9a..da184cc70589292806da12059441ead25c85ac24 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/dwarf1.c
+++ b/bfd/dwarf1.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ parse_die (abfd, aDieInfo, aDiePtr)
   /* First comes the length. */
   aDieInfo->length = bfd_get_32 (abfd, xptr);
   xptr += 4;
+  if (aDieInfo->length == 0)
+    return false;
   if (aDieInfo->length < 6)
     {
       /* Just padding bytes. */