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2008.09.18 06:40 "tiff2pdf: t2p_read_tiff_size allocates length * width bytes processing jpeg compressed input images", by <burkhard.schoelpen@rowe.de>

Hello,

I think there is a bug in tiff2pdf.c (at least versions 3.7.2 to 3.8.2). 
  Processing jpeg compressed input tiff files with the dimension of 
length * width pixels, a buffer of length * width bytes is allocated in 
memory, because t2p_read_tiff_size is set to this value. I think there 
is a return statement missing in the function t2p_read_tiff_size (at the 
end of the #ifdef JPEG_SUPPORT section), because otherwise the buffer 
size is set to a fixed value (t2p->tiff_datasize=TIFFScanlineSize(input) 
* t2p->tiff_length) which is absolutely different from the size 
calculated a few lines of code above.

Additionally it would be a convenient feature, if the input image would 
not be placed in memory as a whole, because this is a waste of memory, 
which is actually not necessary and obviously leads to crashes if length 
* width is bigger than the available amount of RAM. I think the jpeg 
stripes could be processed by and by without holding the rest of the 
image in memory.

Sincerely,
Burkhard Schölpen



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