[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avutil/imgutils: av_image_check_size2() ensure width and height fit in 32bit

Anton Khirnov anton at khirnov.net
Tue Jul 9 18:14:37 EEST 2024


Quoting Michael Niedermayer (2024-07-09 15:28:10)
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 03:17:58PM +0200, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> > > ensure width and height fit in 32bit
> > 
> > why?
> 
> because not everyone wants undefined behavior
> because not everyone wants security issues
> because we dont support width and height > 32bit and its easier to check in a central place
> because the changed codes purpose is to check if the image paramaters are
>     within what we support, and width of 100 billion is not. You can try
>     all encoders with 100billion width. Then try to decode.
>     Iam curious, how many work, how many fail and how they fail
>     how many invalid bitstreams with no warning, how many undefined behaviors, ...
> 
> Simply building FFmpeg on a platform with 64bit ints doesnt update
> ISO and ITU standards to allow larger values

Quoting Michael Niedermayer (2020-10-07 16:45:56):
> At least in code i wrote and write i consider it a bug if it would
> assume sizeof(int/unsigned) == 4

Make up your mind.

-- 
Anton Khirnov


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