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I shipped 5.2.2 a few days ago.  This was a catchup release for
the problems with immediate, obvious fixes; I intend to issue another
in the relatively near future.

I apologize for the long release interval and my inattention to this
list. I have spent much of the last two years in recovery from
surgery to treat stomach cancer. It seems to have been caught in time
and my prognosis is excellent, but post-surgical exhaustion from
having your abdomen cut open is a nasty thing to deal with and
kept me sidelined for quite a while.

I am mostly recovered and can pay better attention now. Some comments
on the current stuation:

We have some memory leaks: issues #165, #162, #161, and #156.  These
should be fixed, but functionally they are only very minor problems.
Addressing these will be the main focus of the next point release.

About the recent CVEs CVE-2022-28506, CVE-2020-23922, CVE-2021-40633:
I believe these bugs are now fixed.

But I am annoyed. Those CVEs were bullshit and whoever filed them
should be deeply ashamed of themselves, especially giving the first
one an 8.8 severity score. Crashes in an obsolete image-conversion
utility are not under any plausible circumstances a security or
confidentiality threat and do *not* merit a CVE. Filing for them was
an abuse of a mechanism intended to focus attention on serious
threats.

Also, it did nobody any favors that those CVEs might raise unjustified
doubts about the important piece that really could be an exploitable
attack surface - the GIFLIB library itself.

Issue #160 seems to indicate a real, functional bug. I'm not sure how
to address it. It has been 30 yers since I wrote or debugged a giflib
client.

The reporter of issue #142 says he'll work on a patch this weekend.

One other issue: occasionally I get requests to move the project build
back to autoconf, or to CMake, or to some other trendy build system of
the week.

I am a scarred veteran of autoconf, SConstruct, waf, and experiments
with CMake. I can remember when there was a stronger case for these -
before C99 and SuSV2, back when configuring for the API of your host
Unix was a huge headache. But over time as toolchains got more
standardized, and the more I've had to deal with the fragility,
instability, and over-complexity of these tools, the better I like the
brutal simplicity of plain Makefiles.

Makefiles work everwhere (even on Windows these days) and what you see
is exactly what you get. These are excellent qualities, especially for
a very simple build recipe like this project's.

So I don't have any plans to "fix" the build system, and am actively
against complicating it.  Assume GNU Make; that's it.
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I wonder as well if the maintainer is still reading this list. But perhaps
there are things in the pipes, and we'll have a new release soon.

Hello,

I was wondering if there are any patch releases of giflib planned in the near future.

V5.2.1 still has the bug reported in CVE-2022-28506.
I see that the fix for the CVE reported here : https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/159/ has been provided.
The overall score of this CVE is 8.8 (High) and impacts Availability, Confidentiality, and Integrity.

A patch release for this would be really appreciated.

Thanks,
Abhi Baruah

Hi Team,



I am again reaching out to you for any update about the recent CVE<https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28506#vulnCurrentDescriptionTitle> reported in the latest version of the giflib library (5.2.1). It is still an open issue: https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/159/ . I also saw that there is a pending merge request for its solution:  https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/code/merge-requests/11/.


I would really appreciate any information about the approximate timeline for fixing this vulnerability either by accepting this patch or some other patch or if possible, by the next official release.

Looking forward to your reply.



Thank you!

Rajat

There are two CVEs with a severity level of high that don't appear to be resolved: CVE-2020-23922 and CVE-2021-40633
NIST reports that they are related to the following open bugs:
https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/151/
https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/157/

Are they fixed or any idea on timeline for fixing these vulnerabilities?
Thanks
Todd

Hi Team,


I am reaching out to you about the recent CVE<https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28506#vulnCurrentDescriptionTitle> reported in the latest version of the giflib library (5.2.1). The reported CVE is of high severity rated as 8.8 on NVD. The current status of CVE on the SourceForge website is still open: https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/159/



This CVE is of high severity and will impact the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of the software involved. Therefore, I would really appreciate any information about the approximate timeline for fixing this vulnerability either through a patch or by the next official release.

Looking forward to your reply.



Thank you!

Rajat

Hi giflib developers!
  I hope you are well!
  I'm trying to verify whether CVE-2020-23922 (heap overflow in DumpScreen2RGB in gif2rgb.c) is fixed in giflib 5.2.1.
  The CVE was found in giflib <= 5.1.4, but the CVE database links to open giflib bug ticket #151.
  But the giflib NEWS for 5.1.5 say similar bug was fixed: #105: heap buffer overflow in DumpScreen2RGB in gif2rgb.c:317 - but I can't find ticket #105 in list of your open or closed tickets.
  So I'm not sure if CVE-2020-23922 is fixed or not.
  Looks like you redid the giflib folder structure between 5.1.4 and 5.2.1 so it's hard to compare diffs, but I manually diff'ed gif2rgb.c between 5.1.4 and 5.2.1 and I don't see a fix yet.
  Can you please confirm?  If fixed, can you point me to the change?
  Thank you!
     Ellen Johnson
     Senior Software Engineer
     MathWorks

Hello,

multiple recently closed bug reports are not accessible anymore, e.g.
https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/112/
https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/113/
https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/110/

Is there an archive somewhere?

cu Andreas
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Hi Eric,

If I'm dynamically linking in giflib in my project, i.e. using
dlopen("libgif.so.7", RTLD_LAZY), is there a way for me to determine,
at compile time, what the appropriate soname should be that
corresponds to the giflib headers that I'm compiling against?  For
example, so that I know that "libgif.so.7" should be passed to
dlopen() instead of "libgif.so.6".

Have you thought about the best way for a project to expose that
information?  libpng provides a macro PNG_LIBPNG_VER_SONUM that
contains the abi major version for example.

Also, since the above macro probably doesn't exist, do you know which
API major/minor numbers correspond to recent ABI changes?  Maybe
libgif.so.4 - libgif.so.7?

Thanks,
-Brandon

Hi. 

I wanted to know if there is a quick way to get the number of frames in GIF using GifLib without actually reading all the frames? 

There is a function DGifGetExtensionNext for skipping extensions, but is there something similar for skipping image data? If the record type is IMAGE_DESC_RECORD_TYPE 

Thank you in advance 




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Ed Schouten <ed...@nu...>:
> While trying to build giflib on CloudABI (https://nuxi.nl/), I noticed
> that giflib uses the strtok() function in a couple of places. The use
> of strtok() is heavily discouraged, as it is not thread-safe. This
> potentially makes it harder to use giflib in multi-threaded programs.

Thanks.  I think the reasomn this hasn't been caufgr before is that that is
a rather obscure corner of the API.  Might be nobody has used it since the
1990s.
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Hi there,

While trying to build giflib on CloudABI (https://nuxi.nl/), I noticed
that giflib uses the strtok() function in a couple of places. The use
of strtok() is heavily discouraged, as it is not thread-safe. This
potentially makes it harder to use giflib in multi-threaded programs.

Attached is a patch to let giflib use strtok_r() instead. It also
removes some of the casts in there, which look suspicious. The
functions are already called with arguments of the right type.

Best regards,
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Nuxi, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
KvK-nr.: 62051717

Jumping into the thread without proper References: headers, since I was not
subscribed before.

Simon Thelen <foss-ml@...>:
> Hello,
>
> When opening a gif file using giflib the RunningBits member of
> GifFilePrivateType is never initialized before access in
> DGifSetupDecompress (called from DGifGetImageDesc) causing the function
> to occasionally set GifFile->Error = D_GIF_ERR_READ_FAILED and return
> GIF_ERROR even though no actual error occurred.

I was bitten by this in the image viewer that I use, sxiv:
https://github.com/muennich/sxiv

Since giflib 5.1.2, sxiv fails (variously "Corrupted gif image" and "Error
opening image") when trying to view the _second_ gif, when given a list of
images to view. giflib 5.1.1 does not have this problem.

I can verify that the problem is solved with a giflib compiled from the repo
at exactly ef0cb9b4be572262b49fbc26fb2348683f44a517 "Explicitly zero private
storage.", which should be where the fix was pushed.

Thanks for the fix Simon and Eric. I wish for a new release in the near
future.

//Daniel

Loganaden Velvindron <log...@gm...>:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I noticed the latest patches, where we use memset() before freeing an
> struct. I was wondering if there would be interest in applying it to other
> parts of giflib, as a safety measure ?
> 
> I have a bunch of patches.

I'd like to see them.
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Hi Folks,

I noticed the latest patches, where we use memset() before freeing an
struct. I was wondering if there would be interest in applying it to other
parts of giflib, as a safety measure ?

I have a bunch of patches.

Simon Thelen <fo...@c-...>:
> Hello,
> 
> When opening a gif file using giflib the RunningBits member of
> GifFilePrivateType is never initialized before access in
> DGifSetupDecompress (called from DGifGetImageDesc) causing the function
> to occasionally set GifFile->Error = D_GIF_ERR_READ_FAILED and return
> GIF_ERROR even though no actual error occurred.
> 
> I've attached a patch that initializes RunningBits to 0 in
> DGifOpenFileHandle, but it might be safer to memset Private to 0 after
> allocating with malloc as there might other variables that are accessed
> without initialization that I haven't hit.
> 
> Since I am not currently subscribed to the mailing list, please CC me in
> replies to this mail (though I will try and check the mailing list
> archives periodically).
> 
> -- 
> Simon Thelen

> --- lib/dgif_lib.c.orig	2016-01-16 22:04:46.645036386 +0100
> +++ lib/dgif_lib.c	2016-01-16 22:05:37.752384125 +0100
> @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@
>      Private->File = f;
>      Private->FileState = FILE_STATE_READ;
>      Private->Read = NULL;        /* don't use alternate input method (TVT) */
> +    Private->RunningBits = 0;    /* Make sure to initialize RunningBits */
>      GifFile->UserData = NULL;    /* TVT */
>      /*@=mustfreeonly@*/
>  

I think the memset is a better idea, and have pushed that change.
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Hello,

When opening a gif file using giflib the RunningBits member of
GifFilePrivateType is never initialized before access in
DGifSetupDecompress (called from DGifGetImageDesc) causing the function
to occasionally set GifFile->Error = D_GIF_ERR_READ_FAILED and return
GIF_ERROR even though no actual error occurred.

I've attached a patch that initializes RunningBits to 0 in
DGifOpenFileHandle, but it might be safer to memset Private to 0 after
allocating with malloc as there might other variables that are accessed
without initialization that I haven't hit.

Since I am not currently subscribed to the mailing list, please CC me in
replies to this mail (though I will try and check the mailing list
archives periodically).

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Based on docs at

    http://giflib.sourceforge.net/whatsinagif/bits_and_bytes.html
---
Hi,
Does this make sense to fix the above CVE?
Cheers,
 -- Guido

 util/giffix.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/util/giffix.c b/util/giffix.c
index 6fba84a..d1ff72b 100644
--- a/util/giffix.c
+++ b/util/giffix.c
@@ -91,9 +91,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	GifFileIn->SColorMap) == GIF_ERROR)
 	QuitGifError(GifFileIn, GifFileOut);
 
-    if ((LineBuffer = (GifRowType) malloc(GifFileIn->SWidth)) == NULL)
-	GIF_EXIT("Failed to allocate memory required, aborted.");
-
     /* Scan the content of the GIF file and load the image(s) in: */
     do {
 	if (DGifGetRecordType(GifFileIn, &RecordType) == GIF_ERROR)
@@ -113,6 +110,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		GifQprintf("\n%s: Image %d at (%d, %d) [%dx%d]:     ",
 		    PROGRAM_NAME, ++ImageNum, Col, Row, Width, Height);
 
+		if ((LineBuffer = (GifRowType) malloc(Width)) == NULL)
+		  GIF_EXIT("Failed to allocate memory required, aborted.");
+
 		/* Put the image descriptor to out file: */
 		if (EGifPutImageDesc(GifFileOut, Col, Row, Width, Height,
 		    false, GifFileIn->Image.ColorMap) == GIF_ERROR)
-- 
2.6.4

Patch was updated.

http://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/patches/21/

Dear giflib developers,

I've started working on initial hardening of the memory allocation for giflib.

I imported OpenBSD's reallocarray() which has useful check for overflows:

Please see:

https://github.com/AstrodogInc/secfu/blob/master/giflib/giflib.patch

>From OpenBSD's man page:
The above test is not sufficient in all cases. For example,
multiplying ints requires a different set of checks:

int num, size;
...

/* Avoid invalid requests */
if (size < 0 || num < 0)
errc(1, EOVERFLOW, "overflow");

/* Check for signed int overflow */
if (size && num > INT_MAX / size)
errc(1, EOVERFLOW, "overflow");

if ((p = malloc(size * num)) == NULL)
err(1, "malloc");

Assuming the implementation checks for integer overflow as OpenBSD
does, it is much easier to use calloc() or reallocarray().
The above examples could be simplified to:

if ((p = reallocarray(NULL, num, size)) == NULL)
err(1, "reallocarray");

I have converted 2 calls to reallocarray() (Thanks to
bc...@op... for reviewing my diff).

I can start looking at other areas that will benefit from
reallocarray(), if there is interest upstream-wise.

Are you guys interested in this ?


Kind regards,
//Logan
C-x-C-c


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ga...@ya... <ga...@ya...>:
>I don't know then if one frame in a animation could have more than
>one image block.

Can have up to two: one local; to the image, one global to the collection.
The giflib library itself only extracts colormaps and pixel valus for you;
it doesn't control how these are composited into a final RGB value.  That's
up to the application.

(Note to self: Add some recommendations about this to the docs.)

>Furthermore I don't understand how the GifColorType correlates with
the GifPixelType. Why this distinction?

GifPixelType is a wrapper for an unsigned pixel value interpreted as
an index into some color table. GifColorType is an RGB triple.
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So what you would suggest? First create images and than convert them to a gif file? 
As I understand you need at least one local color map per image block. I don't know then if one frame in a animation could have more than one image block. Furthermore I don't understand how the GifColorType correlates with the GifPixelType. Why this distinction? 
For instance I have a XColor type within the Xlib. And that type consists of pixel-value and rgb values. So I can easily access the pixel positions and the colors, thus doing manipulation on colors during animation without any need of color maps.



Am 17.08.2014 um 17:12 schrieb "Eric S. Raymond" <es...@th...>:

> Klin Iop <ga...@ya...>:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I would like to do some color manipulation on an animation during the animation itself. But I don't know how and where to set the colormap properly. May I accomplish this kind of manipulation with a local colormap?
>> (There is no input picture - i'm creating the picture and the colormap myself)
>> 
>> My steps would look something like this:
>> 
>> 1. Initialize and create global colormap
>> 2. Apply screen descriptor (using the global colormap) and extensions to gif file, 
>> 3. Do animation and put frames into giffile in one loop
>>    - during the animation process I'm manipulating the colors, putting those into a (local?) colormap and applying this colormap
>>      to gif file with the image descripter for every frame.
>> 
>> So, do i have the right concept about colormaps for animations? Do I need a colormap for every frame in the animation?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Kind Regards
>> Alex
> 
> Probably not.  But how multiple images are interpreted is up to the display
> software; it isn't clearly specified in the standard.  In fact the standard
> seems to have been designed for "picture wall" rendering of multiple images
> on a solid background, not animation as multople images are now commonly used.
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Klin Iop <ga...@ya...>:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to do some color manipulation on an animation during the animation itself. But I don't know how and where to set the colormap properly. May I accomplish this kind of manipulation with a local colormap?
> (There is no input picture - i'm creating the picture and the colormap myself)
> 
> My steps would look something like this:
> 
> 1. Initialize and create global colormap
> 2. Apply screen descriptor (using the global colormap) and extensions to gif file, 
> 3. Do animation and put frames into giffile in one loop
>     - during the animation process I'm manipulating the colors, putting those into a (local?) colormap and applying this colormap
>       to gif file with the image descripter for every frame.
> 
> So, do i have the right concept about colormaps for animations? Do I need a colormap for every frame in the animation?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kind Regards
> Alex

Probably not.  But how multiple images are interpreted is up to the display
software; it isn't clearly specified in the standard.  In fact the standard
seems to have been designed for "picture wall" rendering of multiple images
on a solid background, not animation as multople images are now commonly used.
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Hello,

I would like to do some color manipulation on an animation during the animation itself. But I don't know how and where to set the colormap properly. May I accomplish this kind of manipulation with a local colormap?
(There is no input picture - i'm creating the picture and the colormap myself)

My steps would look something like this:

1. Initialize and create global colormap
2. Apply screen descriptor (using the global colormap) and extensions to gif file, 
3. Do animation and put frames into giffile in one loop
    - during the animation process I'm manipulating the colors, putting those into a (local?) colormap and applying this colormap
      to gif file with the image descripter for every frame.

So, do i have the right concept about colormaps for animations? Do I need a colormap for every frame in the animation?

Thanks,
Kind Regards
Alex
     

Alexander Ischuk <ai...@ya...>:
> Hello,
> 
> I was trying to add a function to dgif_lib.c. First just a test-function. After compiling and reinstalling the giflib, my function is in gif_lib.h in the /include dir. But i get a symbol look up error for this function when calling it.
> 
> What's the correct way to make a function in gif_lib.h?
> 
> Thanks
> Alex

Sounds like you need to add a prototype (a declaration of the function's
return type and arguments) to  gif_lib.h.
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