[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] mga_vid possible buffer overflow (and kernel oops?) fix

Attila Kinali kinali at gmx.net
Sun Feb 16 11:30:55 CET 2003


On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 12:34:01 -0500
D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:

> 
> The patch was nonsense anyway. There was no possibility of overflow
> because the only things printed were short strings and numbers (which
> have limited length), no user-supplied strings.

Well, that's wrong
There was a patch, about one year ago that added a few lines more
and produced an overflow. That lead to my bugreport then.

I vote for application.

			Attila Kinali

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