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Bug 473556 - JPEG plugin crashed when loading image
JPEG plugin crashed when loading image
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 358117
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: General
2.2.x
Other Windows
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-09-04 12:57 UTC by Jani Patokallio
Modified: 2008-01-15 13:30 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
JPEG picture that causes Gimp to crash (345.75 KB, image/jpeg)
2007-09-04 12:59 UTC, Jani Patokallio 		Details

Description Jani Patokallio 2007-09-04 12:57:50 UTC 
Attempting to open the attached image with Gimp 2.2.13 on Windows Vista crashes jpeg.exe.  The image renders fine with MS Paint and other tools I tried.

Other pictures from the same camera render fine, but the camera's card writer is a bit dodgy, so there's probably some corruption in there.  Crashing in response is still not very nice...
Comment 1 tobias 2007-09-04 12:58:58 UTC 
Please add the File to this Bugreport.
Comment 2 Jani Patokallio 2007-09-04 12:59:14 UTC 
Created attachment 94918 [details]
JPEG picture that causes Gimp to crash
Comment 3 Jani Patokallio 2007-09-05 02:27:22 UTC 
Never mind -- I upgraded to 2.2.17, and now the file loads perfectly.
Comment 4 Raphaël Quinet 2007-09-06 12:15:47 UTC 
The image was taken by an Olympus camera and the crash was caused by the old version of libexif that was used by previous GIMP versions.  Since this is a duplicate of an existing bug, I will close this one again with the proper resolution.
Comment 5 Raphaël Quinet 2007-09-06 12:16:08 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 358117 ***
Comment 6 Raphaël Quinet 2007-09-07 11:17:48 UTC 
Note: the reason why this image crashes old GIMP versions is that its EXIF metadata is actually broken.  The original image straight from the camera could probably be loaded without any problems.  But in this case, it appears that the image has been modified by Microsoft Windows Photo Gallery 6.0.  That program has incorrectly modified the EXIF block, resulting in invalid file offsets and other bugs.  Newer GIMP versions depend on a more robust version of libexif and will not crash while loading the image, but some parts of its EXIF metadata (the Olympus MakerNote section) cannot be salvaged.  The best solution is to avoid processing your images with Photo Gallery or to request a fix from Microsoft.