diff -urpPX nopatch linux-2.4.33/fs/binfmt_elf.c linux/fs/binfmt_elf.c
--- linux-2.4.33/fs/binfmt_elf.c	Sat Aug 12 08:48:39 2006
+++ linux/fs/binfmt_elf.c	Sat Aug 12 08:51:47 2006
@@ -945,8 +983,9 @@ static int load_elf_library(struct file 
 		goto out;
 
 	/* First of all, some simple consistency checks */
-	if (elf_ex.e_type != ET_EXEC || elf_ex.e_phnum > 2 ||
-	   !elf_check_arch(&elf_ex) || !file->f_op || !file->f_op->mmap)
+	if (elf_ex.e_type != ET_EXEC ||
+	    elf_ex.e_phnum < 1 || elf_ex.e_phnum > 2 ||
+	    !elf_check_arch(&elf_ex) || !file->f_op || !file->f_op->mmap)
 		goto out;
 
 	/* Now read in all of the header information */