GraphicsMagick 1.2.4 Released

GraphicsMagick 1.2.4 is now available.  This is a bug-fix/security 
release for the 1.2.X release series.  The following updates are in 
this release:

1.2.4 (June 29, 2008)
====================

Security Fixes:

   * AVI reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.

   * AVS reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.

   * DCM reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.

   * EPT reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.

   * FITS reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.

   * MTV reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.

   * PALM reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.

   * RLA reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.

   * TGA reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.

   * Avoid possible crash in GetImageCharacteristics() when substituting
     text in comment read from file.

Bug fixes:

   * Magick++ Image Quantize was not supporting error measurement properly
     and was wasting time with redundant SyncImage().

   * The --enable-magick-compat configure option was not being respected
     by the Makefiles (SourceForge bug 2005883).

The weak readers were discovered via a script which feeds random files 
to GraphicsMagick with all the possible file extensions.  The build 
used was fully instrumented with stack and heap verification enabled. 
Testing was run on several computers for about a week.  Any file which 
caused a crash or abnormally long run time was investigated 
and attended to.

As usual, GraphicsMagick file releases may be downloaded from 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73485 and the 
web site is at http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/.

Thanks,

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/


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