Hello,
> > Yes technically it can theoritically overflow with an very malformed > > AVI (i.e. > > more malformed that the ones trigerring VideoLAN-SA-0901) > > > > However on my simple test (attached) it doesn't wrap up to a negative > > value but > > produce a large integer. I'm not sure if we can rely on that "feature" > > of > > the compiler. > > It can't wrap to a negative value as it is promoted to unsigned. But it > can > wrap to something which is < sizeof(str) I think. No proper fix for an > integer > overflow in my opinion. After a lapse of 5 months I'm coming back with a fix. you can find a diff.gz at http://people.videolan.org/~xtophe/debian/vlc_0.8.6.h-4+lenny3.diff.gz (and .dsc, debdiff and .debs) or in the git repo, branch lenny : http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/vlc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/lenny Regards -- Xtophe _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers