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

[Monty]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 08:52:51PM +0200, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
> 
> 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).

You need to change more than one number in the encoder for that to work.

Monty

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