[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libavformat: Segfault on Apple HTTP Livestream playlist with unavailable hosts

Nicolas George nicolas.george at normalesup.org
Wed Dec 14 17:32:35 CET 2011


Le quartidi 24 frimaire, an CCXX, Takis Issaris a écrit :
> The attached patch checks the AVFormatContext->iformat pointer before
> dereferencing it.

That seems wrong: there are a lot of places that dereference iformat
unconditionally, thus it seems that it being not null is implicitly part of
the API.

According to your ticket :

> the code jumps to fail, which invokes free_variant_list() which in turn
> invokes avformat_close_input()

I believe free_variant_list is wrong to call avformat_close_input on format
contexts that have not been properly opened.

I am not a specialist of applehttp, though, nor of anything with "apple" in
it which does not involve food.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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