[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] mfenc: Use dlopen instead of LoadLibrary for loading mfplat.dll

Martin Storsjö martin at martin.st
Thu May 26 00:35:19 EEST 2022


The dlopen wrapper contains code to make loading libraries safer,
to avoid loading a potentially malicious DLL with the same name.

Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin at martin.st>
---
 libavcodec/mfenc.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libavcodec/mfenc.c b/libavcodec/mfenc.c
index 17d0ec60bd..ab0b6b4145 100644
--- a/libavcodec/mfenc.c
+++ b/libavcodec/mfenc.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include "libavutil/time.h"
 #include "codec_internal.h"
 #include "internal.h"
+#include "compat/w32dlfcn.h"
 
 typedef struct MFContext {
     AVClass *av_class;
@@ -1158,7 +1159,7 @@ static int mf_load_library(AVCodecContext *avctx)
     MFContext *c = avctx->priv_data;
 
 #if !HAVE_UWP
-    c->library = LoadLibraryA("mfplat.dll");
+    c->library = dlopen("mfplat.dll", 0);
 
     if (!c->library) {
         av_log(c, AV_LOG_ERROR, "DLL mfplat.dll failed to open\n");
@@ -1191,7 +1192,7 @@ static int mf_close(AVCodecContext *avctx)
     if (c->library)
         ff_free_mf(&c->functions, &c->mft);
 
-    FreeLibrary(c->library);
+    dlclose(c->library);
     c->library = NULL;
 #else
     ff_free_mf(&c->functions, &c->mft);
-- 
2.25.1



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