[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] icodec: correctly check avio_read return value

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Thu Nov 10 22:14:40 EET 2016


On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 08:56:00PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> On 09.11.2016 02:31, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:36:58PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> >> It can read less than the requested amount, in which case buf contains
> >> uninitialized data, causing problems like segmentation faults later on.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Andreas Cadhalpun <Andreas.Cadhalpun at googlemail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  libavformat/icodec.c | 4 ++--
> >>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/libavformat/icodec.c b/libavformat/icodec.c
> >> index 8019a35..aad1416 100644
> >> --- a/libavformat/icodec.c
> >> +++ b/libavformat/icodec.c
> >> @@ -174,8 +174,8 @@ static int read_packet(AVFormatContext *s, AVPacket *pkt)
> >>          bytestream_put_le16(&buf, 0);
> >>          bytestream_put_le32(&buf, 0);
> >>  
> >> -        if ((ret = avio_read(pb, buf, image->size)) < 0)
> >> -            return ret;
> >> +        if ((ret = avio_read(pb, buf, image->size)) != image->size)
> >> +            return ret < 0 ? ret : AVERROR_INVALIDDATA;
> > 
> > is anything checking size to be positive ?
> > if not it could be matching an error code i think
> 
> I've added a check to make sure that size is positive. New patch attached.
> 
> Best regards,
> Andreas
> 

>  icodec.c |    8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 04c12ac83fea7b911f4050c547b77d1c48e9228b  0001-icodec-correctly-check-avio_read-return-value.patch
> From 31f78a6d2906de4ee69e472aced5fef3af709b9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Andreas Cadhalpun <Andreas.Cadhalpun at googlemail.com>
> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 23:29:28 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] icodec: correctly check avio_read return value
> 
> It can read less than the requested amount, in which case buf contains
> uninitialized data, causing problems like segmentation faults later on.
> 
> Also make sure that image->size is positive, so that it can't match a
> negative error code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Cadhalpun <Andreas.Cadhalpun at googlemail.com>
> ---
>  libavformat/icodec.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/libavformat/icodec.c b/libavformat/icodec.c
> index 8019a35..c273bf6 100644
> --- a/libavformat/icodec.c
> +++ b/libavformat/icodec.c

should be ok

thx

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