[FFmpeg-cvslog] mov: Don't export unknown/unhandled metadata types as if they were UTF8

Martin Storsjö git at videolan.org
Thu Jul 15 10:45:30 EEST 2021


ffmpeg | branch: master | Martin Storsjö <martin at martin.st> | Thu Apr  1 14:34:04 2021 +0300| [13ec6624b3507052d8a0e14cee39b49e3c99450f] | committer: Martin Storsjö

mov: Don't export unknown/unhandled metadata types as if they were UTF8

They can be other incompatible text encodings (such as UTF-16),
or even binary data.

Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin at martin.st>

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit;h=13ec6624b3507052d8a0e14cee39b49e3c99450f
---

 libavformat/mov.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libavformat/mov.c b/libavformat/mov.c
index 329bf3b207..a37a9cc917 100644
--- a/libavformat/mov.c
+++ b/libavformat/mov.c
@@ -501,6 +501,14 @@ retry:
                 av_free(str);
                 return AVERROR_INVALIDDATA;
             }
+        } else if (data_type > 1 && data_type != 4) {
+            // data_type can be 0 if not set at all above. data_type 1 means
+            // UTF8 and 4 means "UTF8 sort". For any other type (UTF16 or e.g.
+            // a picture), don't return it blindly in a string that is supposed
+            // to be UTF8 text.
+            av_log(c->fc, AV_LOG_WARNING, "Skipping unhandled metadata %s of type %d\n", key, data_type);
+            av_free(str);
+            return 0;
         } else {
             int ret = ffio_read_size(pb, str, str_size);
             if (ret < 0) {



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