[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] check for null pointer in nuv decoder (issue 2524)

[Daniel Kang]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Daniel Kang <daniel.d.kang at gmail.com>wrote:

>  On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Reimar D?ffinger <
> Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>>  On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 10:32:02PM -0500, Daniel Kang wrote:
>> > In decode_init in the nuv decoder, c->decomp_buf is set to NULL. In most
>> > cases, this is okay, as the buffer is reallocated. However, for invalid
>> > nuv files, ffmpeg does not reallocate the buffer. In this case, ffmpeg
>> > will crash when trying to access the null pointer. The patch attached
>> > adds a check for this.
>>
>> There are other issues, but please try just setting decomp_size to 0
>> when allocation fails, that should be enough.
>
>
> I have tried only setting decomp_size (and outlen) to 0, but ffmpeg
> still crashes. av_lzo1x_decode still attempts to write to out even with
> an invalid buffer.
>

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