Before checking symbol index zero we should make sure the data size
is big enough.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21310

Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <m...@klomp.org>
---
 src/ChangeLog | 4 ++++
 src/elflint.c | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 0601198..3555942 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2017-03-27  Mark Wielaard  <m...@klomp.org>
+
+       * elflint.c (check_symtab_shndx): Check data->d_size.
+
 2017-02-16  Ulf Hermann  <ulf.herm...@qt.io>
 
        * addr2line.c: Include printversion.h
diff --git a/src/elflint.c b/src/elflint.c
index 66a13ca..76fb1a0 100644
--- a/src/elflint.c
+++ b/src/elflint.c
@@ -1959,7 +1959,8 @@ section [%2d] '%s': extended section index in section 
[%2zu] '%s' refers to same
       return;
     }
 
-  if (*((Elf32_Word *) data->d_buf) != 0)
+  if (data->d_size < sizeof (Elf32_Word)
+      || *((Elf32_Word *) data->d_buf) != 0)
     ERROR (gettext ("symbol 0 should have zero extended section index\n"));
 
   for (size_t cnt = 1; cnt < data->d_size / sizeof (Elf32_Word); ++cnt)
-- 
2.9.3

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