[flac-dev] Two new CVEs against FLAC

Janne Hyvärinen cse at sci.fi
Tue Dec 9 10:31:41 PST 2014


On 25.11.2014 12:14, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> I think the case with non-zero partition order may need to be fixed
> too. For example, with partition order of 1, predictor order of 16 and
> blocksize of 4, the function would return true and blocksize-order in
> the caller would still underflow.
>
> --- a/src/libFLAC/stream_decoder.c
> +++ b/src/libFLAC/stream_decoder.c
> @@ -2744,7 +2744,7 @@ FLAC__bool read_residual_partitioned_rice_(FLAC__StreamDecoder *decoder, unsigne
>                  if(partition_samples < predictor_order) {
>                          send_error_to_client_(decoder, FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_LOST_SYNC);
>                          decoder->protected_->state = FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_SEARCH_FOR_FRAME_SYNC;
> -                       return true;
> +                       return false;
>                  }
>          }
>
> Thoughts?

This patch breaks seeking in some perfectly valid files. So far I have 
received one sample full CD image from a foobar2000 user where a track 
is rendered inaccessible because of this. Re-encoding the file with FLAC 
1.2.1 - 1.3.1 with identical settings doesn't remove the seeking problem.
Either this patch needs to go or it needs to be altered to not prevent 
seek sync.



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