Move to the start of the program headers before attempting to read them.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 7eed9d29a51..99011eaf900 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-12-15  Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>
+
+	* elfcore.h (elf_core_file_p): Move to the start of the program
+	headers before attempting to read them.
+
 2000-12-14  Kazu Hirata  <kazu@hxi.com>
 
 	* peigen.c: Fix formatting.
diff --git a/bfd/elfcore.h b/bfd/elfcore.h
index 11bfeac734f..f04c1d2a3b4 100644
--- a/bfd/elfcore.h
+++ b/bfd/elfcore.h
@@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ elf_core_file_p (abfd)
   if (i_ehdrp->e_phentsize != sizeof (Elf_External_Phdr))
     goto wrong;
 
+  /* Move to the start of the program headers.  */
+  if (bfd_seek (abfd, i_ehdrp->e_phoff, SEEK_SET) != 0)
+    goto wrong;
+  
   /* Allocate space for the program headers. */
   i_phdrp = (Elf_Internal_Phdr *)
     bfd_alloc (abfd, sizeof (*i_phdrp) * i_ehdrp->e_phnum);