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author | Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@gmail.com> | 2020-07-31 08:32:55 +0200 |
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committer | Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@gmail.com> | 2020-08-08 01:08:47 +0200 |
commit | 06fef1e9f11a45df809e7cc4522f7174f48a664f (patch) | |
tree | 48b08c7a14197a0beb93cd0374b08601a6a60dd2 /doc/doxy | |
parent | 6fdf3cc53b5e90524ccfde534ae4a91ee87814aa (diff) | |
download | ffmpeg-06fef1e9f11a45df809e7cc4522f7174f48a664f.tar.gz |
avcodec/put_bits: Make skip_put_bits() less dangerous
Before c63c303a1f2b58677d480505ec93a90f77dd25b5 (the commit which
introduced a typedef for the type of the buffer of a PutBitContext)
skip_put_bits() was as follows:
static inline void skip_put_bits(PutBitContext *s, int n)
{
s->bit_left -= n;
s->buf_ptr -= 4 * (s->bit_left >> 5);
s->bit_left &= 31;
}
If s->bit_left was negative after the first subtraction, then the next
line will divide this by 32 with rounding towards -inf and multiply by
four; the result will be negative, of course.
The aforementioned commit changed this to:
static inline void skip_put_bits(PutBitContext *s, int n)
{
s->bit_left -= n;
s->buf_ptr -= sizeof(BitBuf) * ((unsigned)s->bit_left / BUF_BITS);
s->bit_left &= (BUF_BITS - 1);
}
Casting s->bit_left to unsigned meant that the rounding is still towards
-inf; yet the right side is now always positive (it transformed the
arithmetic shift into a logical shift), so that s->buf_ptr will always
be decremented (by about UINT_MAX / 8 unless n is huge) which leads to
segfaults on further usage and is already undefined pointer arithmetic
before that. This can be reproduced with the mpeg4 encoder with the
AV_CODEC_FLAG2_NO_OUTPUT flag set.
Furthermore, the earlier version as well as the new version share
another bug: s->bit_left will be in the range of 0..(BUF_BITS - 1)
afterwards, although the assumption throughout the other PutBitContext
functions is that it is in the range of 1..BUF_BITS. This might lead to
a shift by BUF_BITS in little-endian mode. This has been fixed, too.
The new version is furthermore able to skip zero bits, too.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@gmail.com>
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