I am playing with image uploads to a website and I found out about these decompression bomb attacks that can take place when it's allowed to upload png files (and some other). Since I am going to change the uploaded images, I want to make sure I don't become a victim of this attack. So when it comes to checking if a png file is a bomb, can I just read the file's headers and make sure that width and height are not more than the set limit, like 4000x4000 or whatever? Is it a valid method? Or what is the better way to go?
Besides large width and height, decompression bombs can also have excessively large iCCP chunks, zTXt, chunks, and iTXt chunks. By default, libpng defends against those to some degree.
Your "imagemagick" tag indicates that you are you asking how to do it with ImageMagick. ImageMagick's default width and height limits are very large: "convert -list resource" says
Resource limits: Width: 214.7MP Height: 214.7MP Area: 8.135GP
Image width and height limits in ImageMagick come from the commandline "-limit" option, which I suppose can also be conveyed via some equivalent directive in the various ImageMagick APIs. ImageMagick inherits the limits on iCCP chunks, etc., from libpng.
Forged smaller width and height values in the IHDR chunk don't fool either libpng or ImageMagick. They just issue an "Extra compressed data" warning and skip the remainder of the IDAT data without decompressing it.
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I'm creating a Raspberry Pi Zero W security camera and am attempting to integrate motion detection using Node.js. Images are being taken with Pi camera module at 8 Megapixels (3280x2464 pixels, roughly 5MB per image).
On a Pi Zero, resources are limited, so loading an entire image from file to Node.js may limit how fast I can capture then evaluate large photographs. Surprisingly, I capture about two 8MB images per second in a background time lapse process and hope to continue to capture the largest sized images roughly once per second at least. One resource that could help with this is extracting the embedded thumbnail from the large image (thumbnail size customizable in raspistill application).
Do you have thoughts on how I could quickly extract the thumbnail from a large image without loading the full image in Node.js? So far I've found a partial answer here. I'm guessing I would manage this through a buffer somehow?
I'm trying to use mogrify to decrease the quality of the image to ultimately decrease the image size but rather than decreasing it, the image size is increasing. I'm using the following command:
mogrify -quality 20% 1.png
The image size is going from 2.5 mb to 4 mb, any idea?
PNG is a lossless format, so changing "quality" settings should do nothing at all with respect to the "image".
The mogrify documentation confirms this - "quality", when applied to a PNG, indicates which row filters to apply: a value ranging from 0 to 6.
Since the input 20 is invalid for a PNG file, it must have been silently replaced with a default value; presumably 0, which indicates no row filtering at all. (If you really want to know if this is the case, you could use a tool such as pngcheck on your before and after images.)
As to your target: it is unclear whether you want to decrease the physical image size in pixels, or the file size on disk, or (possibly) both. For the first, you can use -resize. For the second, try a PNG-recompressing tool such as pngcrush. For both, use the first method and then the second.
Another option may be to lower the number of color components, for example, from 24-bit RGB to indexed color. Finally, you can always convert the image type from PNG to JPEG, after which you can experiment with the "quality" parameter.
Starting from the assumption that I have deleted all unnecessary files, i have my app that contains a folder with jpg images (1024*700 resolution minimum permitted) where the size is 400 MB. When generate my ipa size is 120 MB. I have tried to convert those images in PNG and next generate ipa but size is more than 120 MB (140 MB), but quality it's a bit worse.
Which best practices recommended to reduce the size of the application?
P.s. Those files are showed as gallery.
On tool we used in our game, Draw a Stickman: EPIC, is smusher.
To install (you have to have ruby or XCode command line tools):
sudo gem install smusher
It might print some errors installing that you can ignore.
To use it:
smusher mypng.png
smusher myjpg.jpg
The tool will send the picture off to yahoo's web service smush.it, and in a non-lossy way compress the image.
Generally you can save maybe 20% file size with no loss in quality.
There are definitely other techniques we used like using indexed PNGs, but you are already using JPGs, which are smaller.
I would like to get the dimension of a PNG image file inside my local folder on Windows. How can I achieve this using visual c++?
Should be easy, the png file is formed by an 8 byte intro, followed by a header chunk. Inside the header chunk you have the length (4 bytes), type (4 bytes), followed by the width and height.
So basically, the width is the 4 byte number at 8+8=16 bytes in the file, and the height is at 8+8+4=20 bytes in the file. Just read them!
aside from the well-known GDI APIs (I get the feeling you are trying to avoid these) it is worth giving http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776499%28v=VS.85%29.aspx a shot. Never used it myself though :/
I'v got a bitmap 24bits, I am writing application in c++, MFC,
I am using libjpeg for encoding the bitmap into jpeg file 24bits.
When this bitmap's width is M, and height is N.
How to estimate jpeg file size before saving it with certain quality factor N (0-100).
Is it possible to do this?
For example.
I want to implement a slide bar, which represent save a current bitmap with certain quality factor N.
A label is beside it. shows the approximate file size when decode the bitmap with this quality factor.
When user move the slide bar. He can have a approximate preview of the filesize of the tobe saved jpeg file.
In libjpeg, you can write a custom destination manager that doesn't actually call fwrite, but just counts the number of bytes written.
Start with the stdio destination manager in jdatadst.c, and have a look at the documentation in libjpeg.doc.
Your init_destination and term_destination methods will be very minimal (just alloc/dealloc), and your empty_output_buffer method will do the actual counting. Once you have completed the JPEG writing, you'll have to read the count value out of your custom structure. Make sure you do this before term_destination is called.
It also depends on the compression you are using and to be more specific how many bits per color pixel are you using.
The quality factor wont help you here as a quality factor of 100 can range (in most cases) from 6 bits per color pixel to ~10 bits per color pixel, maybe even more (Not sure).
so once you know that its really straight forward from there..
If you know the Sub Sampling Factor this can be estimated. That information comes from the start of frame marker.
In the same marker right before the width and height so is the bit depth.
If you let
int subSampleFactorH = 2, subSampleFactorV = 1;
Then
int totalImageBytes = (Image.Width / subSampleFactorH) * (Image.Height / subSampleFactorV);
Then you can also optionally add more bytes to account for container data also.
int totalBytes = totalImageBytes + someConstantOverhead;