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Update vendored TinyEXIF from 1.1.0 (8c22aff) to 1.2.0 (5445d04) - #96

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  • three low-severity security advisories (GHSA-jqfq-fwfw-xc8x, GHSA-rvfv-gvcj-m5f5, GHSA-pgrm-rwjh-553p): a crafted file could put an out-of-range or non-finite value into a parsed field, including ISOSpeedRatings, which is passed to Kodi here. Every floating point field is now guaranteed finite, or left absent.
  • a fix for parsing EXIF at all on big-endian CPUs.
  • GPS tags written without a fix (GPSStatus V) no longer report a position at 0N 0E, so hasLatLon() is now false for those pictures.
  • the six gcc 16 -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings the 8c22aff resync introduced, fixed upstream by removing the temporaries.

The header changes are additive only, every member HeifPicture.cpp reads is unchanged, and upstream still builds as C++11.

The files are unmodified from the 1.2.0 tag.

Tested with:

  • LibreELEC x86_64 gcc 16.2.0 cross toolchain at -O1, -O2, -O3 and
    -Os, with and without TINYEXIF_NO_XMP_SUPPORT, using -Wall -Wextra.
  • 8c22aff gave six warnings at -O1, and 1.2.0 gives none at any level.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added support for reading MPF image information from JPEG files, including image locations and large-thumbnail details.
    • Added maximum aperture metadata.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of malformed or out-of-range metadata, including numeric values and JPEG segments.
    • GPS coordinates and altitude are now handled more accurately when location data is invalid or values are zero.
    • Improved compatibility with varied byte orders in camera metadata.
  • Documentation
    • Expanded usage, supported metadata, build, and compatibility guidance.

- three low-severity security advisories (GHSA-jqfq-fwfw-xc8x,
  GHSA-rvfv-gvcj-m5f5, GHSA-pgrm-rwjh-553p): a crafted file could put
  an out-of-range or non-finite value into a parsed field, including
  ISOSpeedRatings, which is passed to Kodi here. Every floating point
  field is now guaranteed finite, or left absent.
- a fix for parsing EXIF at all on big-endian CPUs.
- GPS tags written without a fix (GPSStatus V) no longer report a
  position at 0N 0E, so hasLatLon() is now false for those pictures.
- the six gcc 16 -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings the 8c22aff resync
  introduced, fixed upstream by removing the temporaries.

The header changes are additive only, every member HeifPicture.cpp
reads is unchanged, and upstream still builds as C++11.

The files are unmodified from the 1.2.0 tag.
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TinyEXIF 1.2 adds MPF image indexing and exposes maximum aperture metadata. JPEG, TIFF, EXIF, GPS, and XMP parsing now apply updated scanning, byte-order, bounds, and numeric-value checks. The README documents the API, parsing behavior, build options, compatibility, and tests.

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TinyEXIF 1.2

Layer / File(s) Summary
Numeric parsing and conversion
lib/TinyEXIF/TinyEXIF.cpp
Numeric parsing rejects malformed or non-finite values. Shared conversion helpers assign values only after successful reads.
JPEG scanning and MPF index parsing
lib/TinyEXIF/TinyEXIF.cpp, lib/TinyEXIF/TinyEXIF.h
JPEG parsing scans APP1 and APP2 segments, validates TIFF headers, and records MPF image entries and stream offsets. The public API adds MPF image records and a large-thumbnail query.
EXIF, GPS, DJI, and XMP values
lib/TinyEXIF/TinyEXIF.cpp, lib/TinyEXIF/TinyEXIF.h
Metadata extraction adds maximum-aperture handling and applies numeric bounds and validity checks to EXIF, GPS, DJI, and XMP values.
Usage and compatibility documentation
lib/TinyEXIF/README.md, lib/kodi-TinyEXIF-note.txt
The README documents parsing, metadata fields, MPF image locations, build options, compatibility, and testing. The synchronization note identifies TinyEXIF 1.2.0.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant EXIFInfo
  participant EXIFStream
  Caller->>EXIFInfo: parseFrom(stream)
  EXIFInfo->>EXIFStream: Read JPEG segments
  EXIFStream-->>EXIFInfo: Return APP2 segment and stream offset
  EXIFInfo->>EXIFInfo: parseFromMPFSegment
  EXIFInfo-->>Caller: Return EXIFInfo with MPImages
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RetriggerConfidence Score: 4/5

[Medium risk] Updates vendored image metadata parsing library.

The PR should not merge until a void GPS measurement invalidates coordinates previously parsed into the same object.

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  1. P1 Void GPS retains old coordinates ▶
  2. P2 Vendored build instructions do not work ▶
Summary

The PR updates vendored TinyEXIF to 1.2.0, adding finite-value checks, byte-order and GPS handling changes, MPF support, and expanded upstream documentation.

  • The void-GPS handling does not invalidate position data already held by an EXIFInfo object.
  • The vendored README gives build and test instructions that cannot be followed in this checkout.

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Comment thread lib/TinyEXIF/TinyEXIF.cpp
Comment on lines +1320 to +1321
if (!positionVoid || !IsGPSPositionTag(parser.GetTag()))
parseIFDGPS(parser);

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P1 Void GPS retains old coordinates

If an EXIFInfo object already holds coordinates and a later EXIF segment reports GPSStatus="V", this code skips the new position tags but does not clear the old coordinates, altitude, or presence bits. hasLatLon() can therefore still report a location even though the latest measurement had no fix.

Comment thread lib/TinyEXIF/README.md
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**With CMake** (3.15 or later), which always builds with TinyXML2, found through
`find_package(tinyxml2 CONFIG)`:

```sh
cmake -S . -B build -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF
cmake --build build
cmake --install build

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P2 Vendored build instructions do not work

These instructions describe the upstream TinyEXIF project, not this checkout: cmake -S . configures the Kodi add-on rather than a TinyEXIF demo. The related testing instructions also refer to TestSamples.py, samples, a fuzz harness, and SECURITY.md, none of which are vendored here. Maintainers following the README cannot run the documented build or tests locally; please label these instructions as upstream-only or provide checkout-specific steps.

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Comment thread lib/TinyEXIF/README.md
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The scan reads every segment up to the image data: the APP1 EXIF and XMP segments and the APP2
MPF index. Once it has found an EXIF and an XMP segment, any further one is skipped. Where both

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the parser’s early-stop condition.

EXIFInfo::parseFrom() stops scanning after it finds EXIF, XMP, and an MPF index. It does not always read every segment before the image data. State this early-stop behavior to avoid implying that later segments are included.

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Review comment at @lib/TinyEXIF/README.md around lines 92 - 93:
Update the README’s scan description to clarify that EXIFInfo::parseFrom() stops
once it finds EXIF, XMP, and an MPF index, so it may not read every segment
before the image data.

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Thanks! Win-UWP failure unrelated (fixed in master)

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Released in v22.1.3.

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Released in v22.1.3.

Thanks

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