diff --git a/libavformat/nutdec.c b/libavformat/nutdec.c
index 6b3e94bac7..b52d7d26c6 100644
--- a/libavformat/nutdec.c
+++ b/libavformat/nutdec.c
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ static int get_str(AVIOContext *bc, char *string, unsigned int maxlen)
     if (maxlen)
         string[FFMIN(len, maxlen - 1)] = 0;
 
+    if (bc->eof_reached)
+        return AVERROR_EOF;
     if (maxlen == len)
         return -1;
     else