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TIFF hul Messages

David A. Russo edited this page Oct 6, 2022 · 7 revisions

TIFF-HUL-1

Message

Premature EOF

Details

Needs review

  • Type: TiffException
  • Source location: IFD.java L263
  • Examples: Needed

Impact

The TIFF may be truncated or incomplete.

Remediation

Needs review

TIFF-HUL-2

Message

Tag <tag> out of sequence

Details

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TIFF-HUL-3

Message

Unknown data type

Details

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TIFF-HUL-4

Message

Value offset not word aligned: <value>

Details

TIFF 6.0 Specification, page 15: value offsets are "expected" to point to values which begin on word boundaries. Page 30: "Rows must begin on byte boundaries."

Storing data at word and byte boundaries allows CPUs to more efficiently read and process the data. When it is unaligned, CPUs can require additional attempts at reading the data.

Impact

Minor. Most viewers don't care and will happily display files despite this error. But of course, it still violates the TIFF specification. Further more, systems may suffer a performance penalty while reading or processing the TIFF. The penalty will depend on the architecture of the individual system, which data in the TIFF is unaligned, and how much of it there is.

Remediation

Options:

  • Add pad bytes and adapt pointers where necessary, either manually in a hex editor (tedious and very error-prone) or with a script.
  • Write any metadata with ExifTool (either "really" or using some dummy operation like copying a tag to itself: exiftool '-XResolution<XResolution' a.tif); this will silently fix this error.

TIFF-HUL-5

Message

Read error

Details

Needs review

  • Type: IOException
  • Source location: IFD.java L325
  • Examples: Needed

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-6

Message

Count mismatch for tag <tag>; expecting <minCount>, saw <count>

Details

Needs review

  • Type: TiffException
  • Source location: IFD.java L930
  • Examples: Needed

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-7

Message

Type mismatch for tag <tag>; expecting <expected>, saw <type>

Details

Needs review

Impact

It depends, but at least medium.

Each TIFF tag has a type (like BYTE, ASCII, SHORT, ...) that determines how its content should be interpreted. Generally, if the type of a tag is set to the wrong value its content cannot be interpreted correctly meaning that a viewer will read nonsense from the tag. Depending on the significance of a tag this may or may not prevent the file from being displayed.

However, since the types of the common TIFF tags are well-known from the respective specifications (TIFF of course, but also other specifications like XMP) some viewers might just (silently) ignore wrong types in a TIFF file and use the correct types from the specifications instead, thus being able to display files despite this error. But obviously, this is nothing one should rely on in the long run ...

Remediation

Options:

  • In the affected IFD entry, set the type to the correct value, if necessary adapt the count value (because values of different types may differ in size), and watch out for pad bytes. This can be done in a hex editor (tedious and very error-prone) or with a script (slightly less tedious and error-prone).
  • Copy the affected tag to itself with ExifTool (exiftool '-XResolution<XResolution' a.tif); in many cases this will set the correct type. (But not in all cases: some tags are not writable by ExifTool.)

TIFF-HUL-8

Message

Type mismatch for tag <tag>; expecting <type1> or ,<type2>, saw <type>

Details

Needs review

  • Type: TiffException
  • Source location: IFD.java L971
  • Examples: Needed

Impact

Same as TIFF-HUL-7.

Remediation

Same as TIFF-HUL-7.

TIFF-HUL-9

Message

Invalid GeoKeyDirectory tag

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-10

Message

GeoKey <key> out of sequence

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-11

Message

Undocumented TIFF tag ShadowScale (50739)

Details

Needs review

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

Needs review

TIFF-HUL-12

Message

Unknown TIFF IFD tag: <tag>

Details

An IFD tag of the given type was found but ignored because the module is currently unaware of how to interpret the tag's data.

Impact

The module is unable to inspect the contents of the IFD tag.

Remediation

To request support for an unrecognized IFD tag, please report it to the project.

TIFF-HUL-13

Message

Read error for tag <tag>

Details

Needs review

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-14

Message

Invalid or ill-formed XMP metadata

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-15

Message

Unknown Exif Interoperability IFD tag

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-16

Message

Read error for tag <tag>

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-17

Message

Unknown GPSInfo IFD tag

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-18

Message

Read error for tag <tag>

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-19

Message

Read error for tag <tag>

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-20

Message

No TIFF header: <char0> <char1>

Details

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Impact

Needs review

Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-21

Message

No TIFF magic number: <magic>

Details

The header is 8 bytes long, the magic bytes contain of the number 42 and the description of the byte order that serves to identify the format because of internal signatures. Plus, there is an offset of the first IDF (Image File Directory).

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

Needs review

TIFF-HUL-22

Message

No TIFF header: <char0> <char1>

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-23

Message

No TIFF magic number: <magic>

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-24

Message

Strips and tiles defined together

Details

TIFF 6.0 Specification, p. 103, chapter "Strips and tiles".

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

Needs review

TIFF-HUL-25

Message

Neither strips nor tiles defined

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-26

Message

StripOffsets not defined

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-27

Message

StripByteCounts not defined

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-28

Message

StripOffsets inconsistent with StripByteCounts: <len> != <stripByteCounts.length>

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-29

Message

Invalid strip offset

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-30

Message

TileWidth not defined

Details

TIFF 6.0 Specification, p. 109: datatype "short", has to be defined with a multiple of 8.

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

Needs review

TIFF-HUL-31

Message

TileLength not defined

Details

TIFF 6.0 Specification, p. 109: datatype "short", has to be defined with a multiple of 8.

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

Needs review

TIFF-HUL-32

Message

TileOffsets not defined

Details

TIFF 6.0 Specification, p. 109, data type Long, length number of tiles.

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

Needs review

TIFF-HUL-33

Message

TileByteCounts not defined

Details

TIFF 6.0 Specification, p. 109, data type Long, length number of tiles.

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

Needs review

TIFF-HUL-34

Message

TileWidth not a multiple of 16: <tileWidth>

Details

TileWidth must be a multiple of 16. This restriction improves performance in some graphics environments and enhances compatibility with compression schemes such as JPEG. TIFF 6.0 Specification, p. 67.

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

Needs review

TIFF-HUL-35

Message

TileLength not a multiple of 16: <tileLength>

Details

TileLength must be a multiple of 16 for compatibility with compression schemes such as JPEG. TIFF 6.0 Specification, p. 68.

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

Needs review

TIFF-HUL-36

Message

Insufficient values for TileOffsets: <tileOffsets.length> < <spp_tpi>

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-37

Message

Insufficient values for TileByteCountts: <tileByteCounts.length> < <spp_tpi>

Details

Needs review

Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-38

Message

Insufficient values for TileOffsets: <tileOffsets.length> < <tilesPerImage>

Details

Needs review

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

Needs review

TIFF-HUL-39

Message

Insufficient values for TileByteCounts: <tileByteCounts.length> < <tilesPerImage>

Details

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Impact

Needs review

Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-40

Message

PhotometricInterpretation and NewSubfileType must agree on transparency mask

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-41

Message

For transparency mask BitsPerSample must be 1

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-42

Message

For PhotometricInterpretation, SamplesPerPixel must be >= 1, equals <samplesPerPixel>

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-43

Message

For PhotometricInterpretation, SamplesPerPixel must be >= 3, equals <samplesPerPixel>

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-44

Message

ColorMap not defined for palette-color

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-45

Message

For palette-color SamplesPerPixel must be 1: <samplesPerPixel>

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-46

Message

Insufficient ColorMap values for palette-color: <colormapBitCodeValue.length> < <len>

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-47

Message

CellLength tag not permitted when Threshholding not 2

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-48

Message

DotRange out of range specified by BitsPerSample

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-49

Message

JPEGProc not defined for JPEG compression

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-50

Message

SamplesPerPixel-ExtraSamples not 1 or 3: <samplesPerPixel> - <len>

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-51

Message

BitsPerSample not 8 or 16 for CIE L*a*b*

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-52

Message

XClipPathUnits not defined for ClipPath

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-53

Message

Invalid DateTime length: <dateTime>

Details

Number of values must be 20.

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

Needs review

TIFF-HUL-54

Message

Invalid DateTime separator: <dateTime>

Details

The date-time format is incompatible with the baseline TIFF specification.

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

TIFF date formatting could be corrected using ExifTool.

TIFF-HUL-55

Message

Invalid DateTime digit: <dateTime>

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-56

Message

Invalid DateTime digit: <dateTime>

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-57

Message

Premature EOF

Details

Needs review

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

Needs review

TIFF-HUL-58

Message

No IFD in file

Details

An IFD (Image File directory) is mandatory in each TIFF file.

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

Needs review

TIFF-HUL-59

Message

IFD offset not word-aligned: <next>

Details

TIFF 6.0 Specification, page 13: "The [first IFD] may be at any location in the file after the header but must begin on a word boundary."

Storing data at word boundaries allows CPUs to more efficiently read and process the data. When it is unaligned, CPUs can require additional attempts at reading the data.

Impact

Systems may suffer a performance penalty while reading or processing the TIFF. The penalty will depend on the architecture of the individual system, which data in the TIFF is unaligned, and how much of it there is.

Remediation

Needs review

TIFF-HUL-60

Message

More than 50 IFDs in chain, probably an infinite loop

Details

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Impact

Needs review

Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-61

Message

TIFF compression scheme 6 is deprecated

Details

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Impact

Needs review

Remediation

Needs review

TIFF-HUL-62

Message

ImageWidth not defined

Details

TIFF 6.0 Specification, p. 17: datatype short or long, contains the number of columns in the image, i.e. the number of pixels per scanline.

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

Needs review

TIFF-HUL-63

Message

PhotometricInterpretation not defined

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-64

Message

ImageLength not defined

Details

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Impact

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Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-65

Message

Undocumented TIFF tag

Details

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Impact

Needs review

Remediation

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TIFF-HUL-66

Message

<Tag> value out of range: <value>

Details

The value found for the given tag is outside the range of expected values for that tag.

Impact

Needs review

Remediation

Needs review

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