1999-07-21 Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>

* cofflink.c (_bfd_coff_generic_relocate_section): Issue an error
	message	and fail if a symbol index is out of range.

bfd/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+1999-07-21  Philippe De Muyter  <phdm@macqel.be>
+
+	* cofflink.c (_bfd_coff_generic_relocate_section): Issue an error
+	message	and fail if a symbol index is out of range.
+
 1999-07-21  Ian Lance Taylor  <ian@zembu.com>
 
 	* elf32-mips.c (mips_elf_calculate_relocation): Get the GP value

bfd/cofflink.c

@@ -2603,6 +2603,14 @@ _bfd_coff_generic_relocate_section (output_bfd, info, input_bfd,
 	  h = NULL;
 	  sym = NULL;
 	}
+      else if (symndx < 0
+	       || (unsigned long) symndx >= obj_raw_syment_count (input_bfd))
+	{
+	  (*_bfd_error_handler)
+	    ("%s: illegal symbol index %ld in relocs",
+	     bfd_get_filename (input_bfd), symndx);
+	  return false;
+	}
       else
 	{    
 	  h = obj_coff_sym_hashes (input_bfd)[symndx];