[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 582942] crash in libvorbis when parsing some ogg files

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------- Comment #21 from Alex Bennee  2009-05-22 07:28 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #20)
> No, we're not misusing the API, it's just that the implementation is being
> stricter. Specifically, this was in this commit in libvorbis:
> 
> michael at songbird-desktop:~/src/xiph/vorbis/lib$ svn log -c 14811
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r14811 | xiphmont | 2008-04-28 14:42:52 -0700 (Mon, 28 Apr 2008) | 4 lines
> 
> Additional bulletproofing to hufftree decoding; reject underpopulated 
> trees up-front.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 

I assume that the failure in vorbis_book_init_decode?

Does this mean the crash I'm seeing is just because I have a more upto date
libvorbis than previously?

It still doesn't change the fact that Gstremer needs to deal with it gracefully
rather than push on and let the codec crash. Or are you suggesting making the
vorbis codec itself more bullet proof?


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