Bug#745986: vlc segfaults when trying to open some mkv files

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Hi Alexandre

On 2014-05-12 21:35:58, Alexandre Coninx wrote:
> Dear Sebastian,
> 
> Thanks for your reply to my report.
> 
> On 11/05/14 12:22, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> >>VLC segfaults when I try to open some specifivc mkv files.
> 
> >Is this still an issue with vlc 2.1.4 and the newer libav version in
> >sid?
> 
> Yes, I just tested and the issue still manifest in the same way,
> 
> >If it is, please also attach a backtrace (install vlc-dbg and follow
> >the steps at https://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace).
> 
> Please find it in the attached file. I gzipped it since it was quite big,
> with 13406 elements in the stack! There seems to be a large number of
> recursive calls to a function, maybe the origin of the bug.

Thank you for the backtrace. This looks very similar to
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/8013 which is supposed to be fixed
Could you please follow up upstream (or send me mkv which crashes so
that I can do that)?

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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