Bug 107042 - pdfimages gets stuck in endless loop and extraction of jpeg grows image-file to max. disk capacity
Summary: pdfimages gets stuck in endless loop and extraction of jpeg grows image-file ...
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: poppler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: utils (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium critical
Assignee: poppler-bugs
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Reported: 2018-06-26 08:38 UTC by anon-mws
Modified: 2018-08-21 10:36 UTC (History)
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Be careful when using the given command (2.22 KB, application/pdf)
2018-06-26 08:38 UTC, anon-mws 		Details
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Description anon-mws 2018-06-26 08:38:01 UTC 
Created attachment 140341 [details]
Be careful when using the given command

OS: Debian 9.4 (amd 64)
Ver: pdfimages version 0.63.0

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user@laptop:/tmp$ pdfimages -j /tmp/testfile.pdf image.jpg
Syntax Error (2143): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error (2200): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error (2201): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error (2213): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error (2143): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error (2200): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error (2201): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error (2213): Dictionary key must be a name object
Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Syntax Error: Invalid XRef entry
Syntax Error (1732): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length
.... endless loop ....
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e.g. attached example pdf-file
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2018-07-11 15:33:57 UTC 
Is this actually a bug? the pdf has a huge image inside (1102x2000000000), so it uses a huge amounts of disk to dump it
Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-21 10:36:11 UTC 
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