Re: [PATCH] stroker: Check for scaling overflow in computing half line widths

Miguel Gomez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.cairo
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

> Given a combination of a large scaling matrix and a large line, we
> can
> easily generate a half line width that is unrepresentable in our 24.8
> fixed-point. This leads to spurious errors later, such as generating
> negative height boxes, and so asking pixman to fill to infinity. To
> avoid this, we can check for overflow in calculating the half line
> with,
> though we still lack adequate range checking on the final stroke
> path.

Any news about this? Is there anything we can do to help? This is
causing a pretty serious security bug in Webkit that we would like to
fix.

Thanks for your help!! :)

-- 
Miguel Gomez
Igalia - www.igalia.com
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