imagecreatefrompng (and imagecreatefromstring) causes to unrecoverable fatal error

Question

When I'm trying use php-gd functions on incorrect png images, I have Fatal PHP error. It seems to be some kind of bug, because accordingly to the functions documentation (imagecreatefrompng, for example):

* @return resource an image resource identifier on success, false on errors.

But when I try to do it with my incorrect image, I have:

Fatal error: imagecreatefrompng(): gd-png: fatal libpng error: Read Error: truncated data in /var/www/common/models/Utils.php on line 61

The code that leads to this error is simple:

$handle = imagecreatefrompng($fname);

No code executes after this string.

The same behaviour is for imagecreatefromstring when trying to create an image from the same string.

I can't "fix" this picture, because it is user-provided, so I need to handle this cases.

I tried to use try...catch block like this:

echo 'start'."\n";
try {
    imagecreatefromstring($result);
} catch (\Throwable $e) {
    echo 'error'."\n";
    return null;
}
echo 'success'."\n";

But script outputs only "start", and then dies and shows error description I have posted above.

Ubuntu 16.04.2, PHP 7.0, php7.0-gd extension, both are latest version.

So I can't handle it with try...catch block and I don't know how to handle or fix it at all. Any ideas?

UPD: It seems to be really weird bug with environment, because when I run same code under Windows (with PHP 7.0) it produces correct "Warning" error.

UPD2: It seems to be that fresh bug https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73986

Answer 1

A bit late to the party, but i ran into this problem as well, and cannot wait for the bug fix to be included in my ubuntu LTS The only clean workaround i found is actually to use Imagick::valid() check the image is valid.

function imageIsValid($path)
{
    try
    {
        $imagick = new \Imagick($path);

        return $imagick->valid();
    }
    catch (\Exception $e)
    {
        return false;
    }
}

Of course, your server/hosting needs to have php imagick extension installed...

Answer 2

It seems to be fresh bug (and possibly not closed): https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73986

So until I will find better way, I think it is only one way to check image. It is BAD code and i know it, but I have no other ideas. The idea is to try create an image in another thread and return check value depends on it's output.

$fname = tempnam('/tmp', 'test_');
$handle = fopen($fname, 'w');
fwrite($handle, $result);
fclose($handle);

$output = `php -r "imagecreatefrompng('$fname');" 2>&1`;
unlink($fname);

if (!empty($output)) {
    return null; // error
}
// good image

Backtrick operator will execute command in shell. Than it will output error to stderr. 2>&1 used to make stderr stream output to stdout stream so it can be accessed via backtrick operator.