[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec/flashsv2enc: Fix use of uninitialized value

Andreas Rheinhardt andreas.rheinhardt at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 13:38:20 EET 2021


Before 257a83b969157eb76c18158a4e503e908d8b1125, certain buffers were
zero-allocated in the init function and only reallocated lateron if they
turned out to be too small; now they are only allocated during init,
leading to use-of-uninitialized values lateron. The same could happen
before if the dimensions are big enough so that the buffers would be
reallocated, as the new part of the reallocated buffer would not be
zeroed (happened for 960x960). So always zero the buffers in the
function designed to init them.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt at gmail.com>
---
If no one objects, I'll send a patch to remove #ifndef FLASHSV2_DUMB stuff
lateron: It doesn't even compile any more and given that it has never
worked it stands to reason that any successfull non-dumb way needs to be
different from the currently outcommented code. Of course, I don't think
that anyone will ever add a successfull non-dumb way for this encoder
for an old format.
Furthermore, there are more bugs lurking in this code, namely the
ptr = av_realloc_array(ptr, size) which leads to memleaks on
reallocation failures as well as problems if the caller tries to call
the encoder lateron because block_width/height have already been set, so
that no reallocation attempt would be performed.

 libavcodec/flashsv2enc.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/libavcodec/flashsv2enc.c b/libavcodec/flashsv2enc.c
index 5139b17a28..430b6806c8 100644
--- a/libavcodec/flashsv2enc.c
+++ b/libavcodec/flashsv2enc.c
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ static void init_blocks(FlashSV2Context * s, Block * blocks,
 {
     int row, col;
     Block *b;
+    memset(blocks, 0, s->cols * s->rows * sizeof(*blocks));
     for (col = 0; col < s->cols; col++) {
         for (row = 0; row < s->rows; row++) {
             b = blocks + (col + row * s->cols);
-- 
2.25.1



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