Ghidra: How does one access the "Section Headers" from the API?

[felberj]

@Override
public boolean canAnalyze(Program program) {
    // TODO: Examine 'program' to determine of this analyzer should analyze it.  Return true
    // if it can.
    return false;
}

To figure out whether I can analyze the program, I want to look at the Section Headers of the (in this case Elf) binary.

I want to check whether .MY_SECTION (e.g. .bss) is available, how can I do this? I know from readelf that it is there, but I cannot find it in the symbols.

[ryanmkurtz]

If it sufficient to get the information you need from our memory map, you can just iterator over program.getMemory().getBlocks(), checking the name of each block. If the memory map doesn't provide exactly what you need, you'll have to start examining the bytes at your desired MemoryBlock.

[d-millar]

Alternatively, this should work:

ByteProvider provider = new MemoryByteProvider(program.getMemory(),
    program.getAddressFactory().getDefaultAddressSpace());
CoffFileHeader header = new CoffFileHeader(provider);
List<CoffSectionHeader> sections = header.getSections();
for (CoffSectionHeader section : sections) {
    if ((section.getFlags() & CoffSectionHeaderFlags.STYP_BSS) != 0) {
        ....

(possibly with some exception handling for the new CoffFileHeader)