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fix(targa): reject implausible image dimensions before allocating#5290

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Summary

  • An 18-byte TGA file consisting of just a header (no pixel data) can claim an arbitrary width/height/bpp (e.g. a 1472x12000 24bpp image); readimg() would allocate the full ~53MB buffer and only discover the truncation once the first read hit EOF.
  • Cross-check the header's width/height/bpp against how many bytes of pixel data the file could plausibly contain before committing to the allocation, mirroring the existing pattern in iff.imageio and jpeg2000.imageio. Compares against the on-disk pixel size (palette/16-bit storage is smaller per pixel than the decoded, unpacked ImageSpec) and allows up to 128x expansion for RLE (a 1-byte run-length count can encode up to 128 output pixels).

Test plan

  • testsuite/targa/ref/out.txt updated: several existing corrupt-file regression cases (crash1.tga, crash6.tga, crash3952.tga) are now caught earlier with clearer messages.
  • Verified two real oiio-images TGA files (UCM8.TGA, UTC16.TGA) that use palette/16-bit storage smaller than their decoded size still read correctly (this was a regression I had to fix in the check itself before landing it).
  • ctest -R ^targa$ passes.

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An 18-byte TGA file consisting of just a header (no pixel data) can
claim an arbitrary width/height/bpp -- e.g. a 1472x12000 24bpp image --
and readimg() would allocate the full ~53MB buffer and only discover
the truncation once the first read hits EOF. Worse, the resulting
partially-formed ImageSpec could still propagate to a downstream writer
before the read failure was acted on.

Cross-check the header's width/height/bpp against how many bytes of
pixel data the file could plausibly contain before committing to the
allocation, mirroring the existing pattern in iff.imageio and
jpeg2000.imageio. The check compares against the *on-disk* pixel size
(palette/16-bit storage is smaller per pixel than the decoded,
unpacked ImageSpec) and allows up to 128x expansion for RLE-compressed
images (a 1-byte run-length count can encode up to 128 output pixels).

Updated testsuite/targa/ref/out.txt: several existing corrupt-file
regression cases (crash1.tga, crash6.tga, crash3952.tga) are now caught
earlier with clearer messages, and two real oiio-images TGA files
(UCM8.TGA, UTC16.TGA) that use palette/16-bit storage smaller than
their decoded size continue to read correctly.

Assisted-by: Claude Code / Sonnet 5

Signed-off-by: Larry Gritz <lg@larrygritz.com>
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Closing — opened without authorization by an AI agent. Human will resubmit if the fix is wanted.

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