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

[Christophe Mutricy]

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