On 11/3/17, Thilo Borgmann <thilo.borgm...@mail.de> wrote:
> Am 02.11.17 um 21:32 schrieb Umair Khan:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 1:44 AM, Ronald S. Bultje <rsbul...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Umair Khan <omerj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I tried decoding the file in both the cases and I don't see any
>>>> address related error in the console while decoding. Following is the
>>>> output after I apply the patch :-
>>>>
>>> [..]
>>>
>>>> Is there something which I'm missing?
>>>>
>>>
>>> You need to run under valgrind or compile with address sanitizer support:
>>> configure --toolchain=gcc-asan or --toolchain=clang-asan, depending on
>>> the
>>> name of clang on your system.
>>
>> Thanks for the help. I was finally able to reproduce the error.
>>
>> I have been trying to debug this heap-buffer-overflow error for some
>> days. I have finally found the source of the issue at least.
>>
>> https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/libavcodec/alsdec.c#L934
>>
>> raw_samples pointer is overflowing inside that loop. I haven't thought
>> of a proper fix for this yet. I'll look at the documentation to
>> understand the logic first.
>>
>> However, in case someone (Thilo?) already has some idea on fixing it,
>> that'd be great.
>
> I don't remember exactly but you will need to figure out what the actual
> limit is for opt_order.
>
> If I could give a closer hint, this bug would have been fixed a long time
> ago...
>
> You could have a look at the reference codec code and look where they limit
> that opt_order/buffer size.

There are already patches by Michael and me which deals with this bug.
Which you do not want to apply and without real proof.
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