missing 6.1.1 tarball
Ready to ship 6.1.1
Need tarball for release
Resotore missind index master.
Add section enders to NEWS to faculitate machine parsing.
Remove a minor obstacle.
Ignore giflib.7
Update the tarball maker, including local.dic.
Remove erroneous spelling exceptions.
Move gif2rgb to obsolete. Warn about withdrawal of CLI tools.
Majer version bump nereds to be reflected in the control file.
giflib 6.1.1: Missing symbol
Ready to ship 6.1.1
Add section enders to NEWS to faculitate machine parsing.
Ready to ship 6.1.1
Remove a minor obstacle.
Ignore giflib.7
Ignore giflib.7
Update the tarball maker, including local.dic.
Remove erroneous spelling exceptions.
Move gif2rgb to obsolete. Warn about ewithdrawal of CLI tools.
Majer version bunmp nereds to be reflected in the controll file.
6.1.1 API change: Explanation in NEWS.
Address #161: detected memory leaks in EGifOpenFileHandle giflib/egif_lib.c
NEWS update.
Address SF bug #162 detected memory leaks in GifMakeSavedImage giflib/gifalloc.c
Address SF bug #165 EGifSpew leaks GifFileOut->SColorMap
Address SF bug #171 ImageMagick required to build giflib...
Hardening fixes for gifsponge.c and gifecho.c.
NEWS update.
Fix SF bug #161 detected memory leaks in EGifOpenFileHandle giflib/egif_lib.c
Address SF bug #162 detected memory leaks in GifMakeSavedImage giflib/gifalloc.c
Address SF bug #165 EGifSpew leaks GifFileOut->SColorMap
Address SF bug #171 ImageMagick required to build giflib...
Two critical issues in libgif
I think you have misunderstood the API documentation. If you can tell me specifically where the kibrary failsvto do what it say it will do, I'll fix it. If you can tell me wghere the documentationis unclear, I'll fix that.
cannot compile under mingw
EGifSpew leaks SavedImages (and more).
This is intended. The design assumed you might want to write once, modify the in-core data, and write again
detected memory leaks in EGifOpenFileHandle giflib/egif_lib.c
Fix pushed.
ABI break (Removal of - inter alia - public symbol GifQuantizeBuffer ) - third party software affected
Fixed.
detected memory leaks in GifMakeSavedImage giflib/gifalloc.c
Fix pushed.
EGifSpew leaks GifFileOut->SColorMap
Improved fix pushed.
Fix pushed.
ImageMagick required to build giflib on non-Darwin Platforms
Incorrect object files in shared libutil on darwin
Fix pushed,
Address SF bug #172 Incorrect object files in shared libutil on darwin
installation of manual pages and html documentation
Fix pushed,
Address SF bug #173 installation of manual pages and html documentation
Address SF bug #175 Memory leaks in gifecho.c's main()...
Incomplete fix for issue 159
Fix has been pushed in relation toi the CVE.
wrong pointer used in giftool getbool
Fix pushed,
Address SF bug #177 wrong pointer used in giftool getbool
long time no new version and can release a new version?
I'm going to aship a new version with all issues resolved tomorrow,
Path Traversal vulnerability in giflib's gifinto utility allows creation of files in arbitrary directories due to insufficient validation of user-supplied filenames.
Fix pushed.
Address #179 Path Traversal vulnerability...
-Wformat-truncation likely pointing out an actual bug
Fix pushed.
Address SF bug #180: -Wformat-truncation likely pointing out an actual bug
Address SF bug #181 out-of-bounds access in Gif2Icon
out-of-bounds access in Gif2Icon
Fix pushed.
out‐of‐bounds writes in Icon2Gif
Fix pushed.
Address SF bug #182 out‐of‐bounds writes in Icon2Gif
out-of-bounds access in ModifyColorMap
Duplicated bug, already fixed.
uninitialized buffer in DumpScreen2RGB
Fix pushed,
Address SF Bug #184 uninitialized buffer in DumpScreen2RGB
Fix SF bug #184 uninitialized buffer in DumpScreen2RGB
Fix SF Bug #185 integer overflow in gifbg.c
integer overflow in gifbg.c
Fix pushed.
integer overflow in Icon2Gif
Fix pushed.
Fix SourceForge bug #186 integer overflow in Icon2Gif
CVE-2024-45993
This was addressed by the fix for #167.
Prevent buffer overruns (fix by ChatGPT-5.2).
CVE-2025-31344
Fix pushed.
Resolve SourceForge bug #187: CVE-2025-31344
Resolves #170 Tests failing on Ubuntu Noble, giftext buffer overflow