On Fri, 4 Jul 2025 at 20:52, Kacper Michajłow <kaspe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> av_get_token() allocates an output buffer with the same size as the
> input. Generally, this is harmless, but when the input string is large
> and consists of many small tokens, calling av_get_token() repeatedly to
> extract all tokens will significantly amplify memory allocations.
>
> To fix this, after obtaining the return value, simply realloc the buffer
> to the actual size needed for output string.
>
> Fixes OOM when parsing filter graph string.
> Fixes OSS-Fuzz: 394983446
>
> Signed-off-by: Kacper Michajłow <kaspe...@gmail.com>
> ---
> libavutil/avstring.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/libavutil/avstring.c b/libavutil/avstring.c
> index 875eb691db..281c5cdc88 100644
> --- a/libavutil/avstring.c
> +++ b/libavutil/avstring.c
> @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ end:
>
> char *av_get_token(const char **buf, const char *term)
> {
> - char *out = av_malloc(strlen(*buf) + 1);
> + char *out = av_realloc(NULL, strlen(*buf) + 1);
> char *ret = out, *end = out;
> const char *p = *buf;
> if (!out)
> @@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ char *av_get_token(const char **buf, const char *term)
>
> *buf = p;
>
> - return ret;
> + char *small_ret = av_realloc(ret, out - ret + 2);
> + return small_ret ? small_ret : ret;
> }
>
> char *av_strtok(char *s, const char *delim, char **saveptr)
> --
> 2.47.2
>
>
Will apply later if there is no objection.
- Kacper
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