[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] alsdec: validate time diff index

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Sat Apr 18 20:05:05 CEST 2015


On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 06:58:30PM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> If begin is smaller than t, the subtraction 'begin -= t' wraps around,
> because begin is unsigned. The same applies for end < t.
> 
> This causes segmentation faults.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Cadhalpun <Andreas.Cadhalpun at googlemail.com>
> ---
>  libavcodec/alsdec.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/libavcodec/alsdec.c b/libavcodec/alsdec.c
> index f85f1e8..ff6b6cf 100644
> --- a/libavcodec/alsdec.c
> +++ b/libavcodec/alsdec.c
> @@ -1290,8 +1290,16 @@ static int revert_channel_correlation(ALSDecContext *ctx, ALSBlockData *bd,
>  
>              if (ch[dep].time_diff_sign) {
>                  t      = -t;
> +                if (begin < t) {
> +                    av_log(ctx->avctx, AV_LOG_ERROR, "begin %u smaller than time diff index %d.\n", begin, t);
> +                    return AVERROR_INVALIDDATA;
> +                }

begin is 1, t < 0 also the comparission is unsigned so t will overflow
in it

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