[FFmpeg-devel] [qt-faststart] Ever get "could not allocate 0x14 byte for ftyp atom"?

Mike Melanson mike
Thu Feb 28 20:35:28 CET 2008


matthieu castet wrote:
> May the file has a lot's FTYP atoms.
> The code does malloc without checking if ftyp_atom!=NULL in a loop.
> This can lead to a great memory DOS for broken files...

Interesting theory. Per my understanding, a file should have, at most,
one FTYP that's at the beginning. But I guess there is nothing to stop a
muxer from adding more.

-- 
	-Mike Melanson




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