[vlc-commits] [Git][videolan/vlc][master] preparser: fix crash when artwork title is null

Steve Lhomme (@robUx4) gitlab at videolan.org
Thu Mar 12 11:29:39 UTC 2026



Steve Lhomme pushed to branch master at VideoLAN / VLC


Commits:
cddb7dad by Raiyan Aftab Ansari at 2026-03-12T10:19:48+00:00
preparser: fix crash when artwork title is null

This adds a safety check in ArtCacheGetDirPath to prevent a segmentation fault when processing attachment:// artwork URLs that are missing title metadata.

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1 changed file:

- src/preparser/art.c


Changes:

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src/preparser/art.c
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@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static char* ArtCacheGetDirPath( const char *psz_arturl, const char *psz_artist,
         vlc_hash_md5_t md5;
         vlc_hash_md5_Init( &md5 );
         vlc_hash_md5_Update( &md5, psz_arturl, strlen( psz_arturl ) );
-        if( !strncmp( psz_arturl, "attachment://", 13 ) )
+        if( !strncmp( psz_arturl, "attachment://", 13 ) && psz_title != NULL )
             vlc_hash_md5_Update( &md5, psz_title, strlen( psz_title ) );
         vlc_hash_FinishHex( &md5, psz_arturl_sanitized );
         if( asprintf( &psz_dir, "%s" DIR_SEP "art" DIR_SEP "arturl" DIR_SEP



View it on GitLab: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/commit/cddb7dadf0259e6221998e4055f49ddacbdf2057

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