[DVDnav-discuss] [PATCH] Fix out of array pointer access

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 30 August 2012 at 23:36, Erik Hovland wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> wrote:
> > This patch fixes a segmentation fault hit when reading the DVD 'The
> > Express'.  It prevents a read/write beyond end of an array due to using
> > a length value taken from the DVD, which can exceed the allocated size.
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdvdread/+bug/894170
> >
> > The patch was originally written by rickyrockrat (sorry, I don't have
> > his email address) for 4.1.3.  I got the DVD and reproduced the segfault
> > using 4.2.0 and verified the patch stops the segfault from happening.
> > We're not confident this is the best fix though, so are posting it here
> > for review.
> >
> > Signed-off-by:  Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com>
> 
> Looks fine to me. I have added it to my tree.

Applied.

Regards,
Dominik
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