[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavu/avstring: check for overlong encodings

Stefano Sabatini stefasab at gmail.com
Sat Aug 30 14:58:15 CEST 2014


On date Friday 2014-08-29 15:57:32 +0200, wm4 encoded:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:39:27 +0200
> Stefano Sabatini <stefasab at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Fix reopened trac ticket #1163.
> > ---
> >  libavutil/avstring.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/libavutil/avstring.c b/libavutil/avstring.c
> > index a63fb84..df27d5e 100644
> > --- a/libavutil/avstring.c
> > +++ b/libavutil/avstring.c
> > @@ -331,7 +331,10 @@ int av_utf8_decode(int32_t *codep, const uint8_t **bufp, const uint8_t *buf_end,
> >      const uint8_t *p = *bufp;
> >      uint32_t top;
> >      uint64_t code;
> > -    int ret = 0;
> > +    int ret = 0, tail_len;
> > +    uint32_t overlong_encoding_mins[6] = {
> > +        0x00000000, 0x00000080, 0x00000800, 0x00010000, 0x00200000, 0x04000000,
> > +    };
> >  
> >      if (p >= buf_end)
> >          return 0;
> > @@ -346,8 +349,10 @@ int av_utf8_decode(int32_t *codep, const uint8_t **bufp, const uint8_t *buf_end,
> >      }
> >      top = (code & 128) >> 1;
> >  
> > +    tail_len = 0;
> >      while (code & top) {
> >          int tmp;
> > +        tail_len++;
> >          if (p >= buf_end) {
> >              (*bufp) ++;
> >              return AVERROR(EILSEQ); /* incomplete sequence */
> > @@ -364,6 +369,12 @@ int av_utf8_decode(int32_t *codep, const uint8_t **bufp, const uint8_t *buf_end,
> >      }
> >      code &= (top << 1) - 1;
> >  
> > +    /* check for overlong encodings */
> > +    if (code < overlong_encoding_mins[tail_len]) {
> > +        ret = AVERROR(EILSEQ);
> > +        goto end;
> > +    }
> > +
> >      if (code >= 1<<31) {
> >          ret = AVERROR(EILSEQ);  /* out-of-range value */
> >          goto end;
> 

> Looks ok and simple to me. Is there a guarantee tail_len never
> becomes larger than 5?

It is mathematically impossible that the length will be larger than 5.
Added an assert for that though, alternatively I could add a check.

> 
> Also note that libavcodec/utils.c contains the same check (but less
> readable) in utf8_check().
-- 
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