[Bug 58226] eog closes silently when asked to open a corrupt png

[ClaireNewman]

In English???

James Troup wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> I have a PNG here which has been corrupted (in transport via email) -
> eog silently exits when asked to open the image.  This behaviour is very
> confusing for the average user who clicks on the (broken) attachment in
> their MUA and ... nothing happens.
>
> Unfortunately I can't provide the image in question as it's a scan of
> someone's passport.  However both file(1) and xloadimage(1) recognise
> the PNG as corrupt:
>
> $ file passport.png; xloadimage passport.png
> passport.png: PNG image data, CORRUPTED,
>  PNG file: passport.png - PNG file corrupted by ASCII conversion
> passport.png: unknown or unsupported image type
> $
>
> So presumably libpng is detecting the corruption and eog just isn't
> handling that very gracefully.
>
> ** Affects: eog (Ubuntu)
>      Importance: Untriaged
>          Status: Unconfirmed
>
>   


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Kind regards,

Claire Newman

Tel: +44 207 052 0131
Fax: +44 207 052 9849

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eog closes silently when asked to open a corrupt png
https://launchpad.net/bugs/58226