Eog Crash while opening jpeg-images with EXIF data

Alexander Nedotsukov bland at FreeBSD.org
Mon Feb 20 18:40:35 PST 2006


Pascal,
Cast it to (char*) instead. And this is not the only place in that file. 
You have to patch other memcpy()s too.
All the best,
Alexander.
Pascal Hofstee wrote:
> i am noticing a consistent eog crash when opening jpeg images with EXIF
> data (using MC-gnome, eog-2.13.91) on FreeBSD/amd64 7.0-CURRENT
>
> The line that causes the crash is libeog/eog-metadata-reader.c:231
>
> memcpy ((void*) ((int)(priv->exif_chunk) + priv->bytes_read),
> (void*)&buf[i], priv->size);
>
> I am about 99% sure the (int) typecast on priv->exit_chunk is truncating
> the 64-bit pointer into 32-bits causing the application to segfault as a
> result. I am not 100% on how to properly fix this.
>
> If any of you could have a look at this, that would be appreciated.
>
>   



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