File ffmpeg-CVE-2019-9718.patch of Package ffmpeg.20471
From 1f00c97bc3475c477f3c468cf2d924d5761d0982 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Backhouse via RT <security-reports@semmle.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 11:29:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] avcodec/htmlsubtitles: Fixes denial of service due to use of
sscanf in inner loop for tag scaning
Fixes: [Semmle Security Reports #19438]
Fixes: dos_sscanf1.mkv
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
---
libavcodec/htmlsubtitles.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/libavcodec/htmlsubtitles.c b/libavcodec/htmlsubtitles.c
index fb9f900422..c0cfccfb16 100644
--- a/libavcodec/htmlsubtitles.c
+++ b/libavcodec/htmlsubtitles.c
@@ -74,6 +74,34 @@ struct font_tag {
uint32_t color;
};
+/*
+ * Fast code for scanning the rest of a tag. Functionally equivalent to
+ * this sscanf call:
+ *
+ * sscanf(in, "%127[^<>]>%n", buffer, lenp) == 2
+ */
+static int scantag(const char* in, char* buffer, int* lenp) {
+ int len;
+
+ for (len = 0; len < 128; len++) {
+ const char c = *in++;
+ switch (c) {
+ case '\0':
+ return 0;
+ case '<':
+ return 0;
+ case '>':
+ buffer[len] = '\0';
+ *lenp = len+1;
+ return 1;
+ default:
+ break;
+ }
+ buffer[len] = c;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
/*
* The general politic of the convert is to mask unsupported tags or formatting
* errors (but still alert the user/subtitles writer with an error/warning)
@@ -155,7 +183,7 @@ int ff_htmlmarkup_to_ass(void *log_ctx, AVBPrint *dst, const char *in)
len = 0;
- if (sscanf(in+tag_close+1, "%127[^<>]>%n", buffer, &len) >= 1 && len > 0) {
+ if (scantag(in+tag_close+1, buffer, &len) && len > 0) {
const int skip = len + tag_close;
const char *tagname = buffer;
while (*tagname == ' ') {
--
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