[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ac3: validate end in ff_ac3_bit_alloc_calc_mask

Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 16 21:25:26 CEST 2015


This fixes an invalid read if end is 0:
     band_end   = ff_ac3_bin_to_band_tab[end-1] + 1;

Depending on what is before the array, this can cause stack smashing,
when band_end becomes too large.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Cadhalpun <Andreas.Cadhalpun at googlemail.com>
---
 libavcodec/ac3.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libavcodec/ac3.c b/libavcodec/ac3.c
index c4fc77c..b54315d 100644
--- a/libavcodec/ac3.c
+++ b/libavcodec/ac3.c
@@ -131,6 +131,9 @@ int ff_ac3_bit_alloc_calc_mask(AC3BitAllocParameters *s, int16_t *band_psd,
     int band_start, band_end, begin, end1;
     int lowcomp, fastleak, slowleak;
 
+    if (end <= 0)
+        return AVERROR_INVALIDDATA;
+
     /* excitation function */
     band_start = ff_ac3_bin_to_band_tab[start];
     band_end   = ff_ac3_bin_to_band_tab[end-1] + 1;
-- 
2.1.4


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