[vorbis-dev] Will Vorbis happily decode packets with random data?

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Monty wrote:

> Static buffers have been a known risk for 20 years and only lazy,
> piss-poor programmers (the majority, I grant you) would write code
> today that could be overrun.  If you can find a buffer overrun in
> Vorbis, a case of whatever brew you prefer is on me.

Hmm, latest CVS of your branch segfaults in malloc when a
nonstandard blocksize is used (instead of 256/2048).

Earlier versions handled this just fine.

(Dunno if it's a real overrun, but for a case at stake I'd
at least mention it :)


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