[FFmpeg-cvslog] h264: prevent theoretical infinite loop in SEI parsing

Vittorio Giovara git at videolan.org
Fri Aug 8 14:43:11 CEST 2014


ffmpeg | branch: release/1.1 | Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara at gmail.com> | Wed Jul 30 19:33:36 2014 +0100| [512354191328c559fcff56070dab897ee2a1b4c1] | committer: Vittorio Giovara

h264: prevent theoretical infinite loop in SEI parsing

Properly address CVE-2011-3946 and parse bitstream as described in the spec.

CC: libav-stable at libav.org
Found-by: Mateusz "j00ru" Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit;h=512354191328c559fcff56070dab897ee2a1b4c1
---

 libavcodec/h264_sei.c |   23 ++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libavcodec/h264_sei.c b/libavcodec/h264_sei.c
index 5995a8e..776ce57 100644
--- a/libavcodec/h264_sei.c
+++ b/libavcodec/h264_sei.c
@@ -165,17 +165,22 @@ int ff_h264_decode_sei(H264Context *h){
     MpegEncContext * const s = &h->s;
 
     while (get_bits_left(&s->gb) > 16) {
-        int size, type;
+        int type = 0;
+        int size = 0;
+        int last = 0;
 
-        type=0;
-        do{
-            type+= show_bits(&s->gb, 8);
-        }while(get_bits(&s->gb, 8) == 255);
+        while (get_bits_left(&s->gb) >= 8 &&
+               (last = get_bits(&s->gb, 8)) == 255) {
+            type += 255;
+        }
+        type += last;
 
-        size=0;
-        do{
-            size+= show_bits(&s->gb, 8);
-        }while(get_bits(&s->gb, 8) == 255);
+        last = 0;
+        while (get_bits_left(&s->gb) >= 8 &&
+               (last = get_bits(&s->gb, 8)) == 255) {
+            size += 255;
+        }
+        size += last;
 
         if (size > get_bits_left(&s->gb) / 8) {
             av_log(s->avctx, AV_LOG_ERROR, "SEI type %d truncated at %d\n",



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