[vlc-devel] [PATCH] M3u & pls demux: Check the size of each file line to prevent flooding the playlist.

Rémi Denis-Courmont remi at remlab.net
Wed Apr 24 13:40:15 CEST 2013


On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:30:23 +0200, Adrien Maglo <magsoft at videolan.org>
wrote:
> Here is a new version of the patch with 4096 as the maximum line size.

Well no. Not only does this fail to address a number of other parsers, but
VLC still tries to allocate a huge memory block to read the URL. So AFAIK
the bug is not at all fixed.

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