[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] icodec: correctly check avio_read return value

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Wed Nov 9 03:31:19 EET 2016


On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:36:58PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> It can read less than the requested amount, in which case buf contains
> uninitialized data, causing problems like segmentation faults later on.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Cadhalpun <Andreas.Cadhalpun at googlemail.com>
> ---
>  libavformat/icodec.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/libavformat/icodec.c b/libavformat/icodec.c
> index 8019a35..aad1416 100644
> --- a/libavformat/icodec.c
> +++ b/libavformat/icodec.c
> @@ -174,8 +174,8 @@ static int read_packet(AVFormatContext *s, AVPacket *pkt)
>          bytestream_put_le16(&buf, 0);
>          bytestream_put_le32(&buf, 0);
>  
> -        if ((ret = avio_read(pb, buf, image->size)) < 0)
> -            return ret;
> +        if ((ret = avio_read(pb, buf, image->size)) != image->size)
> +            return ret < 0 ? ret : AVERROR_INVALIDDATA;

is anything checking size to be positive ?
if not it could be matching an error code i think

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If a bugfix only changes things apparently unrelated to the bug with no
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