Bug#699722: src:libav: x264 decoding crashes

[Reinhard Tartler]

reassign 699722 xpra 0.7.8+dfsg-1~exp0
tags 699722 -moreinfo +patch
stop

Thanks a lot Anton. With this analysis, I'm reassinging this bug to
the xpra package.

Dmitry, I have only guessed the version of the xpra package. Please
update the version information of this bug as approriate.

Cheers,
Reinhard

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:03 AM,  <anton at khirnov.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> a Libav developer here.
>
> This is really a bug/abuse of Libav API in xpra -- the file x264lib.c uses an
> uninitialized AVFrame on stack. This has always been forbidden by Libav API, but
> used to work until some changes a few months ago. Functions
> avcodec_alloc_frame() and avcodec_free_frame() (in release 9 only, av_free() in
> 0.8 and earlier)  must be used to allocate and free an AVFrame.
>
> Attached is a patch that fixes it.
>
> --
> Anton Khirnov
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-- 
regards,
    Reinhard