Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <[email protected]>
---
doc/APIchanges | 4 ++++
libavcodec/avcodec.h | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/APIchanges b/doc/APIchanges
index 173f317ea1b..53d164959c0 100644
--- a/doc/APIchanges
+++ b/doc/APIchanges
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ The last version increases of all libraries were on 2024-03-07
API changes, most recent first:
+2024-08-xx - xxxxxxxxx - lavc 61.11.100- avcodec.h
+ Not really a change but get_buffer*() should not return
+ sensitive data
+
2024-08-10 - xxxxxxxxx - lavu 59.34.100 - hwcontext_vulkan.h
Add qf and nb_qf to AVVulkanDeviceContext.
Deprecate queue_family_index, nb_graphics_queues,
diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
index 2da63c87ea1..cc6dbfa59fe 100644
--- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
+++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
@@ -1175,6 +1175,10 @@ typedef struct AVCodecContext {
* this callback and filled with the extra buffers if there are more
* buffers than buf[] can hold. extended_buf will be freed in
* av_frame_unref().
+ * decoders will generally initialize the whole buffer before it is
output
+ * but it can in rare error conditions happen that uninitialized data is
passed
+ * through. The buffers returned by get_buffer* should thus not contain
sensitive
+ * data.
*
* If AV_CODEC_CAP_DR1 is not set then get_buffer2() must call
* avcodec_default_get_buffer2() instead of providing buffers allocated by
--
2.46.0
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