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

[Erik Hovland]

Thanks for getting to all of these patches. I appreciate it.

E

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
<dominik at greysector.net> wrote:
> 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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