[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libavformat/ffmetadecc.c: Fix Use-of-uninitialized-value

Thierry Foucu tfoucu at gmail.com
Thu Aug 20 22:14:52 EEST 2020


Check the return value of sscanf as it can return -1(EOF), for example
when the first char in the line is 0x00
---
 libavformat/ffmetadec.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libavformat/ffmetadec.c b/libavformat/ffmetadec.c
index 45c92f1ff6..0ea89fe3f3 100644
--- a/libavformat/ffmetadec.c
+++ b/libavformat/ffmetadec.c
@@ -101,19 +101,22 @@ static AVChapter *read_chapter(AVFormatContext *s)
     uint8_t line[256];
     int64_t start, end;
     AVRational tb = {1, 1e9};
+    int ret;
 
     get_line(s->pb, line, sizeof(line));
 
     if (sscanf(line, "TIMEBASE=%d/%d", &tb.num, &tb.den))
         get_line(s->pb, line, sizeof(line));
-    if (!sscanf(line, "START=%"SCNd64, &start)) {
+    ret = sscanf(line, "START=%"SCNd64, &start);
+    if (ret <= 0) {
         av_log(s, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Expected chapter start timestamp, found %s.\n", line);
         start = (s->nb_chapters && s->chapters[s->nb_chapters - 1]->end != AV_NOPTS_VALUE) ?
                  s->chapters[s->nb_chapters - 1]->end : 0;
     } else
         get_line(s->pb, line, sizeof(line));
 
-    if (!sscanf(line, "END=%"SCNd64, &end)) {
+    ret = sscanf(line, "END=%"SCNd64, &end);
+    if (ret <= 0) {
         av_log(s, AV_LOG_ERROR, "Expected chapter end timestamp, found %s.\n", line);
         end = AV_NOPTS_VALUE;
     }
-- 
2.28.0.297.g1956fa8f8d-goog



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