[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Checked get_bits.h functions to prevent overread

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 02:41:18PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:03:40PM +0200, Laurent Aimar wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 09:46:34AM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > > Laurent Aimar <fenrir <at> elivagar.org> writes:
> > > 
> > > > > > I have a list of crashes with their backtraces. A lot of the files used
> > > > > > comes from VLC and mplayer FTP and so will probably be easy to retreive.
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Is sending it to the ML is the right choice ?
> > > > > 
> > > > > What's wrong with opening a ticket as explained on
> > > > > http://ffmpeg.org/bugreports.html?
> > > > 
> > > >  It depends. I can create a unique ticket for the backtrace I have
> > > 
> > > That would be great! (or do you mean you could but it is too much effort?)
> >  I meant that I have no problem creating a few tickets if that's what would be
> > usefull for ffmpeg but it would be too much work for me to create a ticket for
> > each crash.
> 
> >  Also, as the bug tracker is probably public, I can also simply send the list
> > first to this ML and then we can work from that ?
> 
> yes, or maybe better open a single ticket with the list and this can
> then over time be split up into multiple tickets.

More elaborately, my idea is
* open a single ticket
* people try to fix issues in this and the list shortens significantly
* some change in the bitstream reader of speed uncritical "fringe"
  codecs again possibly shortens it significantly
* what remains is split up based on previous work into groups of
  likely duplicate crashes

This of course doesnt have to happen in this order

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