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From: "Ronald S. Bultje" <rsbultje@gmail.com>
To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
Cc: "Martin Storsjö" <martin@martin.st>, "Alan Kelly" <alankelly@google.com>
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] checkasm: sw_scale: Reduce range of test data in the yuv2yuvX test to get closer to real data
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:49:36 -0400
Message-ID: <CAEEMt2kgj6OZ1kr3Kuqq3MV==La0uLfo7k=MOEOP1oCAvnhqRg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220817203147.1957322-2-martin@martin.st>

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 4:32 PM Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st> wrote:

> This avoids overflows on some inputs in the x86 case, where the
> assembly version would clip/overflow differently from the
> C reference function.
>
> This doesn't seem to be a real issue with actual input data, but
> only with the previous fully random input data.
>

I'm a bit scared of this change... If we can trigger overflows with
specific pixel patterns, doesn't that make FFmpeg input-data exploitable?
Think of how that would go with corporate users with user-provided input
data.

Ronald
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-17 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-17 20:31 [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] checkasm: sw_scale: Fix the difference printing for approximate functions Martin Storsjö
2022-08-17 20:31 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] checkasm: sw_scale: Reduce range of test data in the yuv2yuvX test to get closer to real data Martin Storsjö
2022-08-17 20:49   ` Ronald S. Bultje [this message]
2022-08-18  7:22     ` Martin Storsjö

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