[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]Avoid overflows when reading pgm with maxval != 255 and 65535

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 10:28:04PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni <at> gmx.at> writes:
> 
> > > The actual reason is that libjpeg v6b writes little 
> > > endian 16bit pgm files, the specification requires 
> > > big endian values.
> > 
> > i have realized this as well once i saw the commit 
> > fixing it in libjpeg
> 
> I had fixed it in the release version myself before 
> I realised to test cvs...
> 
> > this btw is easy to detect if we want to do it ...
> 
> But isn't the work-around different on le and be?

> Note that it was always quite difficult to use 
> libjpeg to produce such files (neither distribution 
> nor standard compilation ever allowed it).

if such files couldnt be generated easily then it probably isnt worth
to add a workaround.
I assume you build libjpeg yourself to make such files ?

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