We've noticed that the bitmask 0xfffffe used to pad chunks while reading wave files could cause the seek position to be corrupted when seeking to positions larger than the bitmask. In the worst case, as encountered by us, this may end up in an infinite loop as the parser would start interpreting random parts of the file as chunk id and size and would move randomly through the file, possibly never leaving the loop.
ni-mheppner
commented
1 year ago
See https://github.com/NativeInstruments/ni-media/pull/63.
We've noticed that the bitmask
0xfffffeused to pad chunks while reading wave files could cause the seek position to be corrupted when seeking to positions larger than the bitmask. In the worst case, as encountered by us, this may end up in an infinite loop as the parser would start interpreting random parts of the file as chunk id and size and would move randomly through the file, possibly never leaving the loop.We think this is a rather critical issue.