libav: divide-by-zero in ff_h263_decode_mba()

Description:
Libav is an open source set of tools for audio and video processing.

After talking with Luca Barbato which is both a Gentoo and Libav developer, I spent a bit of my time fuzzing libav and in particular I fuzzed libavcodec though avplay.
I hit a crash and after I reported it to upstream, they confirmed the issue as a divide-by-zero.

The complete gdb output:

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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/avplay...Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/debug//usr/bin/avplay.debug...done.
done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/avplay avplay.crash
warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso.so.1.
Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"?
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
avplay version 11.3, Copyright (c) 2003-2014 the Libav developers
  built on Jun 19 2015 09:50:59 with gcc 4.8.4 (Gentoo 4.8.4 p1.6, pie-0.6.1)
[New Thread 0x7fffec4c7700 (LWP 7016)]
[New Thread 0x7fffeb166700 (LWP 7017)]
INFO: AddressSanitizer ignores mlock/mlockall/munlock/munlockall
[New Thread 0x7fffe9e28700 (LWP 7018)]
[h263 @ 0x60480000f680] Format detected only with low score of 25, misdetection possible!
[h263 @ 0x60440001f980] Syntax-based Arithmetic Coding (SAC) not supported
[h263 @ 0x60440001f980] Reference Picture Selection not supported
[h263 @ 0x60440001f980] Independent Segment Decoding not supported
[h263 @ 0x60440001f980] header damaged

Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fffe9e28700 (LWP 7018)]
0x00007ffff21e3313 in ff_h263_decode_mba (s=s@entry=0x60720005a100) at /tmp/portage/media-video/libav-11.3/work/libav-11.3/libavcodec/ituh263dec.c:142
142     /tmp/portage/media-video/libav-11.3/work/libav-11.3/libavcodec/ituh263dec.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff21e3313 in ff_h263_decode_mba (s=s@entry=0x60720005a100) at /tmp/portage/media-video/libav-11.3/work/libav-11.3/libavcodec/ituh263dec.c:142
#1  0x00007ffff21f3c2d in ff_h263_decode_picture_header (s=0x60720005a100) at /tmp/portage/media-video/libav-11.3/work/libav-11.3/libavcodec/ituh263dec.c:1112
#2  0x00007ffff1ae16ed in ff_h263_decode_frame (avctx=0x60440001f980, data=0x60380002f480, got_frame=0x7fffe9e272f0, avpkt=) at /tmp/portage/media-video/libav-11.3/work/libav-11.3/libavcodec/h263dec.c:444
#3  0x00007ffff2cd963e in avcodec_decode_video2 (avctx=0x60440001f980, picture=0x60380002f480, got_picture_ptr=got_picture_ptr@entry=0x7fffe9e272f0, avpkt=avpkt@entry=0x7fffe9e273b0) at /tmp/portage/media-video/libav-11.3/work/libav-11.3/libavcodec/utils.c:1600
#4  0x00007ffff44d4fb4 in try_decode_frame (st=st@entry=0x60340002fb00, avpkt=avpkt@entry=0x601c00037b00, options=) at /tmp/portage/media-video/libav-11.3/work/libav-11.3/libavformat/utils.c:1910
#5  0x00007ffff44ebd89 in avformat_find_stream_info (ic=0x60480000f680, options=0x600a00009e80) at /tmp/portage/media-video/libav-11.3/work/libav-11.3/libavformat/utils.c:2276
#6  0x0000000000431834 in decode_thread (arg=0x7ffff7e0b800) at /tmp/portage/media-video/libav-11.3/work/libav-11.3/avplay.c:2268
#7  0x00007ffff0284b08 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libSDL-1.2.so.0
#8  0x00007ffff02b4be9 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libSDL-1.2.so.0
#9  0x00007ffff4e65aa8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.4/libasan.so.0
#10 0x00007ffff0062204 in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
#11 0x00007fffefda957d in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb)

Affected version:
11.3 (and maybe past versions)

Fixed version:
11.5 and 12.0

Commit fix:
https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commitdiff;h=0a49a62f998747cfa564d98d36a459fe70d3299b;hp=6f4cd33efb5a9ec75db1677d5f7846c60337129f

Credit:
This bug was discovered by Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo.

CVE:
CVE-2015-5479

Timeline:
2015-06-21: bug discovered
2015-06-22: bug reported privately to upstream
2015-06-30: upstream commit the fix
2015-07-14: CVE assigned
2015-07-16: advisory release

Note:
This bug was found with American Fuzzy Lop.
This bug does not affect ffmpeg.

Permalink:
http://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2015/07/16/libav-divide-by-zero-in-ff_h263_decode_mba

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