Fix for TEMP-0000000-002932 and VideoLAN-SA-0901

[Nico Golde]

Hey,
* Christophe Mutricy <xtophe at chewa.net> [2010-03-21 23:34]:
> > > 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

This one looks good!

Cheers
Nico
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