[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] mov: Don't export unknown/unhandled metadata types as if they were UTF8

[Martin Storsjö]

They can be other incompatible text encodings (such as UTF-16),
or even binary data.
---
 libavformat/mov.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libavformat/mov.c b/libavformat/mov.c
index 162772f499..f539bca1f0 100644
--- a/libavformat/mov.c
+++ b/libavformat/mov.c
@@ -509,6 +509,14 @@ 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) {
-- 
2.24.3 (Apple Git-128)