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#222 idat problem libpng-1.6.10

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2014-04-12
2014-04-12
No

affected: <=libpng-1.6.10
unaffected: libpng-1.5.*
libpng error: IDAT: invalid distance too far back
ShiftyEngine Error: Unable to load: /usr/share/games/scramble/pics/background.png

you may get problem image from http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/scramble-0.9.5.tar.gz
because homepage of scramble is now unreachable.

Discussion

  • Yury Fedorchenko

    image

     
  • Yury Fedorchenko

    hm, image seams has been reconverted. original in archive

     
  • Glenn Randers-Pehrson

    • status: open --> closed-invalid
    • assigned_to: Glenn Randers-Pehrson
     
  • Glenn Randers-Pehrson

    This is a known issue. You can use libpng's "contrib/tools/pngfix", "pngcrush", or any libng15-based application to repair such invalid PNG files. The problem is that the zlib datastream looks back further than the beginning of the sliding window while decompressing.

     

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