Download MKVToolnix 8.5.1

Version 8.5.1 of MKVToolNix has been released. This collection of open source programs allows viewing, editing and conversion of Matroska files. For example, sound tracks and subtitles can be added, removed or set as default. They are separate command line tools, but a graphical user interface is also included. This has been replaced by a new one in version 8.0. The old one could still be used, but has been completely removed since version 8.4.0. Versions are available for download for Windows, many Linux distributions, and OS X. This release fixes several bugs and includes new versions of libEBML and libMatroska.

MKVToolNix v8.5.1 released

I’ve released MKVToolNix v8.5.1 only four days after 8.5.0. The reason is that Cisco’s Talos Research Group has found several cases of invalid memory access and instances of freeing memory twice in libEBML (TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037). The consequences range from heap information disclosure to denial of service.

Those issues have been fixed along with some more cases of invalid memory access discovered while investigating the TALOS-CAN reports. New releases of libEBML (v1.3.3) and libMatroska (v1.4.4) were made yesterday. Today’s release of MKVToolNix incorporates both updated libraries, and its build system requires at least those versions if you want to use globally-installed copies.

As MKVToolNix and therefore both libEBML and libMatroska are often used to process content from arbitrary sources I highly recommend everyone to upgrade.

Here’s the full ChangeLog since the previous release:

• build system: libEBML v1.3.3 and libMatroska v1.4.4 are now required due to important fixes for invalid memory accesses in those two releases. The copies included in the MKVToolNix source code have been updated to those releases as well.
• MKVToolNix GUI: bug fix: the “save file” dialogs did not have the currently entered file name pre-selected anymore. Fixes #1480.
• MKVToolNix GUI: header editor enhancement: several track properties like name or language are shown as columns in the tree for easier distinction between tracks. They’re also shown on the overview page on the right when that track’s entry is selected in the tree. The text in the labels on this overview page can be selected with the mouse for copying & pasting elsewhere.
• MKVToolNix GUI: bug fix: fixed a crash when loading corrupted job settings.
• MKVToolNix GUI: header editor bug fix: the tree items weren’t re-translated when the GUI language was changed.
• mkvmerge: bug fix: updating the track headers wasn’t working in some rare cases (corresponding error message “Re-rendering track headers: data_size != 0 not implemented yet”).
• MKVToolNix GUI: bug fix (Linux): the function “open folder” was inserting a superfluous leading slash in the directory name. This causes some file managers (in this particular case Dolphin on Linux) to interpret a directory name like “//home/mosu/…” as a share called “mosu” on a Samba/Windows server called “home” and to prepend the whole name with the “smb://” protocol. Fixes #1479.