[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] AC3 decoder stability

[Justin Ruggles]

Hi,

Here is the least invasive and fastest solution I could come up with for
fixing the problem with overreading the input buffer in the AC3 decoder.
 I went through the specs and calculated the maximum possible AC3 frame
size.  This patch adds a fixed-size input buffer to the
AC3DecodeContext, copies the user-provided input buffer to the context
buffer, and reads the frame from that instead.  This way there will be
no possibility for buffer overread when a damaged or malformed frame is
encountered.

speed tests:
           stereo       5.1   5.1->stereo downmix
--------------------------------------------------
svn:       0.768s      2.804s      2.076s
patched:   0.780s      2.816s      2.068s

valgrind tests on a damaged stream, using '-er 0':
svn:  2909 errors from 35 contexts
patched: 0 errors from  0 contexts

-Justin

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