diff --git a/folly/debugging/symbolizer/Elf.cpp b/folly/debugging/symbolizer/Elf.cpp
index d28b144ead6..8dbf06ef3ad 100644
--- a/folly/debugging/symbolizer/Elf.cpp
+++ b/folly/debugging/symbolizer/Elf.cpp
@@ -51,6 +51,26 @@
 namespace folly {
 namespace symbolizer {
 
+namespace detail {
+
+folly::StringPiece getNullTerminatedPathComponent(
+    folly::StringPiece section) noexcept {
+  auto const* begin = section.data();
+  auto const* nul =
+      static_cast<const char*>(memchr(begin, '\0', section.size()));
+  if (nul == nullptr || nul == begin) {
+    return {};
+  }
+  auto const nameLen = static_cast<size_t>(nul - begin);
+  if (memchr(begin, '/', nameLen) != nullptr ||
+      memchr(begin, '\\', nameLen) != nullptr) {
+    return {};
+  }
+  return folly::StringPiece(begin, nameLen);
+}
+
+} // namespace detail
+
 ElfFile::ElfFile() noexcept
     : fd_(-1),
       file_(static_cast<char*>(MAP_FAILED)),
@@ -144,15 +164,21 @@ ElfFile::OpenResult ElfFile::openAndFollow(
 
   // The section starts with the filename, with any leading directory
   // components removed, followed by a zero byte.
-  auto debugFileName = getSectionBody(*debuginfo);
-  auto debugFileLen = strlen(debugFileName.begin());
-  if (dirlen + debugFileLen >= PATH_MAX) {
+  auto debugFileName =
+      detail::getNullTerminatedPathComponent(getSectionBody(*debuginfo));
+  if (debugFileName.empty()) {
+    return result;
+  }
+
+  auto debugFileLen = debugFileName.size();
+  if (dirlen + debugFileLen + 1 > PATH_MAX) {
     return result;
   }
 
   char linkname[PATH_MAX];
   memcpy(linkname, name, dirlen);
-  memcpy(linkname + dirlen, debugFileName.begin(), debugFileLen + 1);
+  memcpy(linkname + dirlen, debugFileName.data(), debugFileLen);
+  linkname[dirlen + debugFileLen] = '\0';
   reset();
   result = openNoThrow(linkname, options);
   if (result == kSuccess) {
diff --git a/folly/debugging/symbolizer/Elf.h b/folly/debugging/symbolizer/Elf.h
index f2484591a7d..a5da7ec8321 100644
--- a/folly/debugging/symbolizer/Elf.h
+++ b/folly/debugging/symbolizer/Elf.h
@@ -43,6 +43,16 @@
 namespace folly {
 namespace symbolizer {
 
+namespace detail {
+
+// Extract and validate a filename-like C-string from section data, returning
+// empty on malformed input (missing null terminator, empty name, or directory
+// separator in the prefix).
+folly::StringPiece getNullTerminatedPathComponent(
+    folly::StringPiece section) noexcept;
+
+} // namespace detail
+
 #if defined(ElfW)
 #define FOLLY_ELF_ELFW(name) ElfW(name)
 #elif defined(__FreeBSD__)
diff --git a/folly/debugging/symbolizer/test/ElfTest.cpp b/folly/debugging/symbolizer/test/ElfTest.cpp
index ebfbb10c73e..36d2cfb6583 100644
--- a/folly/debugging/symbolizer/test/ElfTest.cpp
+++ b/folly/debugging/symbolizer/test/ElfTest.cpp
@@ -184,6 +184,27 @@ TEST_F(ElfTest, FailToOpenLargeFilename) {
   EXPECT_EQ(ElfFile::kSuccess, elfFile->openNoThrow(kDefaultElf));
 }
 
+TEST(TestDebugLinkParsing, ParsesNullTerminatedName) {
+  std::string raw("debug.bin\0ignored", 17);
+  auto const parsed = folly::symbolizer::detail::getNullTerminatedPathComponent(
+      folly::StringPiece(raw.data(), raw.size()));
+  EXPECT_EQ("debug.bin", parsed);
+}
+
+TEST(TestDebugLinkParsing, RejectsMissingNullTerminator) {
+  std::string raw("debug.bin", 9);
+  auto const parsed = folly::symbolizer::detail::getNullTerminatedPathComponent(
+      folly::StringPiece(raw.data(), raw.size()));
+  EXPECT_TRUE(parsed.empty());
+}
+
+TEST(TestDebugLinkParsing, RejectsDirectoryTraversalLikeNames) {
+  std::string raw("../debug.bin\0", 13);
+  auto const parsed = folly::symbolizer::detail::getNullTerminatedPathComponent(
+      folly::StringPiece(raw.data(), raw.size()));
+  EXPECT_TRUE(parsed.empty());
+}
+
 TEST(TestGetNoteGnuBuildId, SimpleElf) {
   auto const file =
       folly::test::find_resource("folly/debugging/symbolizer/test/simple_elf");