[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] fix parsing of broken mp3 streams

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:18:06PM +0200, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Here is a small patch that fixes of running out-of-buffer in parsing
> broken mp3 data stream.
> This solution is rather a hotfix - better solution would be to check
> at least one or two next mp3
> frames in sequence whether they are part of the same audio stream or
> some random junk
> which has 0xfffx header inside. With this patch ugly noise could be
> sometimes noticed.
> 
> Also questionable is whether it should return -1 if no header is found
> or rather return skipped
> bytes and out_size = 0 - as then usually such packet is rescaned
> multiple times with
> one-byte step forward...
> 
> Zdenek
> 
> - Fix buffer overrun
> - Properly return parsed bytes together with skipped bytes

please provide a sample so we can confirm the bugfix, the patch
looks mostly correct though

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