#11344: av_clip functions, use of uninitialised value
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Reporter: | Type: defect
names_are_hard |
Status: new | Priority: normal
Component: swresample | Version: git-
| master
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Reproduced by developer: 0
Analyzed by developer: 0 |
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Some av_clip* functions, including at least av_clip_uintp2_c() and
av_clip_int16_c(), have behaviour dependent on uninitialised values due to
use in a conditional.
I have guessed the component to be swresample based on file names in
valgrind trace, my confidence is moderate.
Samples are attached, if Trac will let me.
Repro instructions:
valgrind --track-origins=yes ffmpeg_g -i some_sample -nostdin -f null -
Tested against master @ 1e76bd2f39.
Truncated example valgrind output:
{{{
==882956== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==882956== at 0x118EA3E: av_clip_int16_c (common.h:245)
==882956== by 0x118EA3E: conv_AV_SAMPLE_FMT_FLT_to_AV_SAMPLE_FMT_S16
(audioconvert.c:79)
==882956== by 0x118EEDB: swri_audio_convert (audioconvert.c:248)
[...]
==882956== Uninitialised value was created by a heap allocation
==882956== at 0x4848DA0: memalign (in /usr/libexec/valgrind
/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
[...]
==882956== by 0x8CCD08: audio_get_buffer (get_buffer.c:193)
==882956== by 0x8CCD08: avcodec_default_get_buffer2 (get_buffer.c:284)
}}}
The specific fix should probably find why initialisation is skipped and
fix the root cause. This is hard for me to determine, as I have little
experience with ffmpeg.
A more general fix that I would recommend also employing is to use
calloc() where possible when allocating structs / object-like entities.
On "large" OSes, this is likely to have no performance impact, as the OS
will keep a pool of zero pages available for this purpose. If there are
concerns about perf on smaller OSes, a malloc-like function could be
chosen at build time for these targets.
This would reduce control available to attackers, and make coverage guided
fuzzing more efficient. Currently, ffmpeg coverage is non-deterministic
on many inputs due to this and similar bugs.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/11344>
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