[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavc/libx264.c: Fix possible UB by NULL pointer LHS

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Thu Jun 16 23:01:10 EEST 2022


On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 05:58:09PM +0200, Thilo Borgmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the LHS pointer might be NULL so that += would be UB.
> 
> Thanks,
> Thilo

>  libx264.c |    4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 558de1ca7a30aa728193297a7d605c051b5bbfc0  0001-lavc-libx264.c-Fix-possible-UB-by-NULL-pointer-LHS.patch
> From cfb7ce8092c34436fae3120645aa96fe082af4ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michael Goulet <mgoulet at fb.com>
> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 17:52:56 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] lavc/libx264.c: Fix possible UB by NULL pointer LHS
> 
> It is UB to attempt to do pointer arithmetic on NULL pointer LHS, even if that pointer arithmetic ends up being "+= 0" (i.e. !!p == 0 if p == NULL).
> ---
>  libavcodec/libx264.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

should be ok

[...]

thx

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