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Version 6.1.2
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Code Fixes
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* Fix for low-severity CVE-2026-23868 affecting gifponge, giftool, and gifbuild,
but not the core library - library clients need not be alarned.
Version 6.1.1
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This release bumps the major version, but only one entry point -
EGifSpew() - has changed signature and behavior (in order to be able
to pass out a detailed error code). The internal error
codes in the E_GIF_ERR series have changed value so none of them
collides with GIF_ERROR.
This code has been systematically audited and hardened wuth
ChatGPT-5.2. The only library fixes reported by users or found by
robot were for some memory leaks that could only triggered by severely
malformed GIFs. Other bugs are edge-case failures in the CLI tools.
The gif2rbg CLI tool has been moved to the "obsolete" bin, because its
only deployment case in 2026 is as a piñata at fuzzer parties.
Warning: the CLI tools in the obsolete category will soon be removed
from the distribution entirely. The maintainer is tired of fielding
junk bugs filed against them by would-be coup-counters who found yet
another edge case, and the rest of the world doesn't need noisy CVEs
that aren't actually DoS or security issues for giflib clients.
Code Fixes
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* Fix for CVE-2021-40633.
* Fix SF bug NetBSD#165 EGifSpew leaks GifFileOut->SColorMap
* Fix SF bug NetBSD#171 ImageMagick required to build giflib on non-Darwin Platforms
* Fix SF bug NetBSD#172 Incorrect object files in shared libutil on darwin
* Fix SF bug NetBSD#173 installation of manual pages and html documentation
* Fix SF bug NetBSD#175 Memory leaks in gifecho.c's main() and in gifalloc.c's GifMakeMapObject
* Fix SF bug NetBSD#177 wrong pointer used in giftool getbool
* Fix SF bug NetBSD#179 Path Traversal vulnerability
* Fix SF bug #180: -Wformat-truncation likely pointing out an actual bug
* Fix SF bug #182 out‐of‐bounds writes in Icon2Gif
* Fix SF bug #184 uninitialized buffer in DumpScreen2RGB
* Fix SF bug #185 integer overflow in gifbg.c
* Fix SF bug #186 integer overflow in Icon2Gif
* Fix SF bug #187: CVE-2025-31344
* Fix SF bug NetBSD#170 Tests failing on Ubuntu Noble, giftext buffer overflow
* Fix SF bug NetBSD#165 EGifSpew leaks GifFileOut->SColorMap
* Fix SF bug NetBSD#162 detected memory leaks in GifMakeSavedImage giflib/gifalloc.c
* Fix SF bug NetBSD#161 detected memory leaks in EGifOpenFileHandle giflib/egif_lib.c
* Fix SF bug NetBSD#142 ABI break public symbol GifQuantizeBuffer
Other bugs that duplicate these have breen addressesed by these fixes
* SF bug NetBSD#156 EGifSpew leaks SavedImages (and more); won't fix, caller
might want to write a GIF, modify the in-memory data, then write
again.
Tests
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Test suite now emits TAP (Test Anything Protocol).
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