Package: mimms
Version: 0.0.9-1
Followup-For: Bug #279165
There hasn't been a mimms release since the bug was filed, but here's a
patch which gracefully exists in this situation. This was tested
against the reproduction case of an invalid mms URL.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages mimms depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.0-11 GCC support library
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.6-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libuuid1 1.37+1.38-WIP-0620-1 universally unique id library
mimms recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- mimms-0.0.9/mimms.cpp 2004-10-22 07:38:33.000000000 -0700
+++ mimms-0.0.9.crashesless/mimms.cpp 2005-06-28 00:01:51.000000000 -0700
@@ -710,7 +710,14 @@
num_stream_ids = 0;
/* get_headers(s, asf_header); */
- asf_header_len = get_header (s, asf_header);
+ if ((asf_header_len = get_header (s, asf_header)) == 0) {
+ close (output_fh);
+ if (unlink (file) < 0)
+ perror (file);
+ close (s);
+ return 1;
+ }
+
packet_length = interp_header (asf_header, asf_header_len);
/* 0x33 */
