vlc crashed with SIGSEGV in av_open_input_stream()

[iGadget]

VLC just crashed when trying to open a freshly encoded .m4v which was encoded with the default 'Normal' settings from HandBrake 4196svn (x86_64).

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: vlc-nox 1.1.11-2build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 28 10:45:18 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110803.1)
ProcCmdline: vlc file.m4v
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f10e0b77e57 <av_open_input_stream+135>: mov 0x20(%rdx),%rax
 PC (0x7f10e0b77e57) ok
 source "0x20(%rdx)" (0x00000020) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: vlc
StacktraceTop:
 av_open_input_stream () from /usr/lib/libavformat.so.53
 ?? () from /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/demux/libavformat_plugin.so
 module_need () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.4
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.4
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libvlccore.so.4
Title: vlc crashed with SIGSEGV in av_open_input_stream()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 av_open_input_stream (ic_ptr=0x245e240, pb=0x245e190, filename=0x242cfb0 "/media/video/series/Prison Break/Season 4/Prison Break.m4v", fmt=<optimized out>, ap=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/libav-0.7.1/libavformat/utils.c:469
 OpenDemux (p_this=0x2446d00) at demux.c:220
 module_need (p_this=<optimized out>, psz_capability=0x7f10f3160549 "demux", psz_name=<optimized out>, b_strict=true) at modules/modules.c:559
 __demux_New (p_obj=<optimized out>, p_parent_input=<optimized out>, psz_access=0x242cfe7 "m4v", psz_demux=0x7f10f31686d1 "", psz_path=0x7f10ec003cf0 "/media/video/series/Prison Break/Season 4/Prison Break.m4v", s=<optimized out>, out=0x7f10ec003800, b_quick=true) at input/demux.c:169
 InputSourceInit (p_input=<optimized out>, in=<optimized out>, psz_mrl=<optimized out>, psz_forced_demux=<optimized out>, b_in_can_fail=false) at input/input.c:2603

[Baskak (antoni-beksiak)]

on startup (after login), vlc NOT invoked voluntarily

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

This patches should fix the issue:
http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commitdiff;h=9c2a02466053dd4762d474d89d9be9a957eaaefe
http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commitdiff;h=9973ca992e8499848b8d5b0b536e709109dc65e2

Fix has been committed to debian, will be in upstream 0.7.2 release

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libav - 4:0.7.1-7ubuntu2

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libav (4:0.7.1-7ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Revert "Convert package to include multiarch support."

libav (4:0.7.1-7ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=medium

  * Merge from debian/unstable
    - don't build against libfaad, libdirac, librtmp and libopenjpeg,
      lame, xvid, x264 (all in universe)
    - Introduces Security fix for CVE-2011-3362
    - Fixes LP: #835903
  * post-0.7.1/0070-Fix-memory-re-allocation-in-matroskadec.c-related-to.patch:
    - fix memory (re)allocation in matroskadec.c, related to MSVR-11-0080

libav (4:0.7.1-7) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add 63 (!) additional post 0.7.1 patches
    - all scheduled for next upstream point release
    - Fix missing CAVS boundary checks, Closes: #641478, Fixes: CVE-2011-3362
  * Medium urgency for fixing a security issue
  * Drop debian/patches/03-fix-movrel.patch, better patch upstream
  * prefer libtiff4 over libtiff5 for now

libav (4:0.7.1-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Convert package to include multiarch support.

libav (4:0.7.1-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * sync patches with upstream release branch
  * Fix segmentation fault on ppc32, Closes: #639948

libav (4:0.7.1-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * upload to unstable
 -- Reinhard Tartler <email address hidden> Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:18:34 +0200