diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 741938b37..c8742f395 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ver 0.21.21 (not yet released)
+* archive
+  - iso9660: skip empty file names to work around libcdio bug
 * decoder
   - gme: ignore empty tags
 * output
diff --git a/src/archive/plugins/Iso9660ArchivePlugin.cxx b/src/archive/plugins/Iso9660ArchivePlugin.cxx
index 50cea2aef..6cb307bd4 100644
--- a/src/archive/plugins/Iso9660ArchivePlugin.cxx
+++ b/src/archive/plugins/Iso9660ArchivePlugin.cxx
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include "input/InputStream.hxx"
 #include "fs/Path.hxx"
 #include "util/RuntimeError.hxx"
+#include "util/StringCompare.hxx"
 
 #include <cdio/iso9660.h>
 
@@ -93,7 +94,9 @@ Iso9660ArchiveFile::Visit(char *path, size_t length, size_t capacity,
 		auto *statbuf = (iso9660_stat_t *)
 			_cdio_list_node_data(entnode);
 		const char *filename = statbuf->filename;
-		if (PathTraitsUTF8::IsSpecialFilename(filename))
+		if (StringIsEmpty(filename) ||
+		    PathTraitsUTF8::IsSpecialFilename(filename))
+			/* skip empty names (libcdio bug?) */
 			/* skip special names like "." and ".." */
 			continue;