This is the simplest fix for the problem, it is possible to instead check this when the variables are set and propagate errors and then fail earlier Fixes: out of array access Fixes: 26490/clusterfuzz-testcase-minimized-ffmpeg_dem_VIVIDAS_fuzzer-5723367078100992 Found-by: continuous fuzzing process https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects/ffmpeg Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>tags/n4.4