[FFmpeg-devel] libavcodec/h264_sei: Don't log random user data.

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Sat Nov 4 20:27:13 EET 2017


On Sat, Nov 04, 2017 at 06:23:12PM +0000, Kieran Kunhya wrote:
> On Sat, 6 May 2017 at 17:51 James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > The proper change here would be to look at the uuid and print only those
> > known to store printable strings, and of course after making sure they
> > are in fact printable.
> > As of now, that means x264's uuid only.
> >
> 
> The UUID can be corrupt as well.
> We shouldn't be printing random data from the bitstream to the users
> terminal.

i agree


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