Bug#756329: vlc: Fix usage of AVFrame to avoid crashes

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Montag, den 28.07.2014, 22:49 +0200 schrieb Andreas Cadhalpun:
> Package: vlc
> Version: 2.1.4-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> in modules/codec/avcodec/audio.c one finds:
>      AVFrame frame;
>      memset( &frame, 0, sizeof( frame ) );
> 
> According to the documentation of libavutil this is wrong:
> "sizeof(AVFrame) is not a part of the public ABI, so new fields may be 
> added to the end with a minor bump."
> 
> This code will crash, when used with a different AVFrame at runtime than 
> was available at compile-time.
> 
> The attached patch fixes this problem.

Thanks for the patch. This is clearly an upstream issue. Can you forward
your patch to upstream to get it integrated into VLC?

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer