1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/miscutils/fbsplash.c b/miscutils/fbsplash.c
index a0f7d0dc2..1ea5d8ebb 100644
--- a/miscutils/fbsplash.c
+++ b/miscutils/fbsplash.c
@@ -224,14 +224,26 @@ static void fb_drawimage(void)
         theme_file = xfopen_stdin(G.image_filename);
         head = xmalloc(256);
 
-        // parse ppm header
+        /* parse ppm header
+         * - A ppm image’s magic number is the two characters "P6".
+         * - Whitespace (blanks, TABs, CRs, LFs).
+         * - A width, formatted as ASCII characters in decimal.
+         * - Whitespace.
+         * - A height, again in ASCII decimal.
+         * - Whitespace.
+         * - The maximum color value (Maxval), again in ASCII decimal. Must be
+         *   less than 65536.
+         * - Newline or other single whitespace character.
+         * - A raster of Width * Height pixels in triplets of rgb
+         *   in pure binary by 1 (or not implemented 2) bytes.
+         */
         while (1) {
                 if (fgets(head, 256, theme_file) == NULL
                         /* do not overrun the buffer */
                         || strlen(bb_common_bufsiz1) >= sizeof(bb_common_bufsiz1) - 256)
                         bb_error_msg_and_die("bad PPM file '%s'", G.image_filename);
 
-                ptr = memchr(head, '#', 256);
+                ptr = memchr(skip_whitespace(head), '#', 256);
                 if (ptr != NULL)
                         *ptr = 0; /* ignore comments */
                 strcat(bb_common_bufsiz1, head);