[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ffm: reject a negative codec_id

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:03:22AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> A negative codec_id cannot be handled by the found_decoder API of
> AVStream->info: if the codec_id is not recognized, found_decoder is set
> to -codec_id, which has to be '<0' according to the API documentation.
> 
> This can cause NULL pointer dereferencing in try_decode_frame.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Cadhalpun <Andreas.Cadhalpun at googlemail.com>
> ---
>  libavformat/ffmdec.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

can avcodec_descriptor_get() be used instead of < 0 to check the codec
ids validity ?

codec_type could be checked too that way

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