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Bug #48123 imagecolorset() misbehaves in newer versions of PHP
Submitted: 2009-04-30 16:46 UTC Modified: 2009-05-01 13:41 UTC
From: vincent dot k dot hughitt at nasa dot gov Assigned: pajoye (profile)
Status: Not a bug Package: GD related
PHP Version: 5.2.6-3 OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2009-04-30 16:46 UTC] vincent dot k dot hughitt at nasa dot gov
Description:
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I wrote a small piece of code using that uses the GD module to apply a color-table to a gray-scale image.

In newer versions of PHP, however, the script only outputs grayscale images, with no error message.

Furthermore, outputting the contents of imagecolorsforindex shows that the script is still reading the palette properly, so it must have something to do with the next step (imagecolorset).

Any ideas?

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System 1 (non-working): 

Ubuntu 9.04 Linux 2.6.28-11-generic
PHP 5.2.6-3ubuntu4.1 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Apr 23 2009 14:35:05)
gd 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-3ubuntu1

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System 2 (non-working):

Fedora 11 Beta Linux 2.6.29.1-111.fc11.i586
PHP 5.2.9
gd 2.0.35

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System 3 (WORKING):
Ubuntu 8.10 Linux 2.6.27-11-generic
PHP 5.2.6-2ubuntu4.1 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Feb 11 2009 20:38:24)
gd 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-3ubuntu1

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(Originally reported downstream at:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php5/+bug/368036)

Reproduce code:
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/**
 * Takes a grayscale PNG and modifies it's index to use 256-color 
 * lookup table then outputs it as an 8-bit JPEG image, or 8-bit 
 * paletted PNG.
 *
 * Sample image and color-table:
 *
 * http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26034594/eit_grayscale.png
 * http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26034597/ctable_eit304.png
 */

$gd = imagecreatefrompng("eit_grayscale.png");
$ctable = imagecreatefrompng("ctable_eit304.png");

for ($i = 0; $i <= 255; $i++) {
 $rgba = imagecolorsforindex($ctable, $i);
 imagecolorset($gd, $i, $rgba["red"], $rgba["green"], $rgba["blue"]);
}

imagejpeg($gd, "eit_final.jpg", 75);
imagedestroy($gd);
imagedestroy($ctable);

Expected result:
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Outputs a 8-bit color JPEG. (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26034598/eit_final_ubuntu810.jpg)

Actual result:
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Outputs a 8-bit grayscale JPEG. (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26034602/eit_final_ubuntu904.jpg)

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 [2009-04-30 17:33 UTC] pajoye@php.net
and what do you expect as "correct" result? for this script.

And please not that both Debian and Ubuntu do not use the bundled GD as it is recommended and the GD version they use is in a poor state (ubuntu being less worst).

Please try the same using a normal php too, compiling it with the bundled GD.
 [2009-04-30 18:11 UTC] vincent dot k dot hughitt at nasa dot gov
Hi Pajoye,

Thanks for the feedback. I did not know that about Ubuntu/Fedora's packaged versions of GD. I will try downloading and compiling PHP from source and see if I run into the same issues, and post my results here.

If you start with the images:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26034594/eit_grayscale.png
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26034597/ctable_eit304.png

The expected output of the script is:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26034598/eit_final_ubuntu810.jpg

which is a COLOR image. The problem is that using newer version of PHP, the result is a GRAYSCALE image.
 [2009-04-30 19:12 UTC] jani@php.net
Verified with latest CVS, using bundled GD library.
 [2009-04-30 19:37 UTC] vincent dot k dot hughitt at nasa dot gov
Okay, got same result on Ubuntu 9.04 using compiled PHP + Bundled GD:

PHP 5.2.6-3ubuntu4.1, GD bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
 [2009-05-01 12:17 UTC] pajoye@php.net
hi,

There is no bug, the difference is actually a bug fix in how GD managed PNG Grayscale images. When the grayscale image has an alpha component (PNG_COLOR_TYPE_GRAY_ALPHA), a truecolor image is created. 

If you use a real grayscale only image the resulting image will still be a palette image. For example:

http://pierre.libgd.org/48123_eit_real_grayscale.png

is a grayscale only image and works as you expect. It is not a bug, however next version of GD will support grayscale images as internal formats, that will greatly ease this kind of transformation.
 [2009-05-01 13:41 UTC] vincent dot k dot hughitt at nasa dot gov
Using true grayscale images as input did the trick. Thank you for the advice pajoye.

Keep up the great work!
 
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