[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] indeo3: add out-of-buffer write check

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Mon May 23 21:03:07 CEST 2011


On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 05:40:11PM +0200, Laurent Aimar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Prevent out-of-buffer writes. In particular fix smclocki32.avi.1.1
> > crash, fix trac issue #114, roundup issue #1482.
> > ---
> >  libavcodec/indeo3.c |    3 +++
> >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/libavcodec/indeo3.c b/libavcodec/indeo3.c
> > index b74fcf7..8e55fbe 100644
> > --- a/libavcodec/indeo3.c
> > +++ b/libavcodec/indeo3.c
> > @@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ static void iv_Decode_Chunk(Indeo3DecodeContext *s,
> >      int *width_tbl, width_tbl_arr[10];
> >      const signed char *ref_vectors;
> >      uint8_t *cur_frm_pos, *ref_frm_pos, *cp, *cp2;
> > +    uint8_t *cur_end = cur + width*height + width;
> >      uint32_t *cur_lp, *ref_lp;
> >      const uint32_t *correction_lp[2], *correctionloworder_lp[2], *correctionhighorder_lp[2];
> >      uint8_t *correction_type_sp[2];
> > @@ -359,6 +360,8 @@ static void iv_Decode_Chunk(Indeo3DecodeContext *s,
> >                              k = *buf1++;
> >                              cur_lp = ((uint32_t *)cur_frm_pos) + width_tbl[lp2];
> >                              ref_lp = ((uint32_t *)ref_frm_pos) + width_tbl[lp2];
> > +                            if ((uint8_t *)cur_lp >= cur_end-3)
> > +                                break;
> If the overflow can happen, then IMO this check is not robust enough, you can
> have an integer overflow when computing cur_lp address.
>  Also while at it, it seems that width_tbl can be < 0, and I am not sure it is
> correctly checked.

Iam sure there are alot more bugs in there
maxim has a cleaner decoder and iam hoping he will post it soon so we
can decide which to keep before putting too much time in one that we
might remove later


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