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LIBPNG: Portable Network Graphics support, official libpng repository

8 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2015-11-14 · latest 2023-01-18

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  1. These might change your mind on reliability: https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/issues ; http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html section "Security and Crash Bugs in Older Versions"; https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-7…
    comment by nayuki · 2023-01-18 · in Hello, PNG
  2. …bytes are also PNG chunk types. It wouldn't fix the writer complexity though. [1] For example, https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/blob/a37d483/pngpread.c#L7...
    comment by lifthrasiir · 2022-01-01 · in A new protocol and tool for PNG file attachments
  3. Oh wow. I was working with Glenn on GitHub and I didn't know. https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/pull/177 was my last interaction with him. He seemed to really care about libpng and making it better.
    comment by ioquatix · 2018-10-25 · in PNG format co-designer Glenn Randers-Pehrson has died
  4. …Why not Gneural or libpng or even GNU make ? http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gneuralnetwork.git https://github.com/glennrp/libpng http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/
    comment by gens · 2017-09-03 · in Comparing C and C++ usage and performance with a real world project
  5. Also check out libpng's source. https://github.com/glennrp/libpng
    comment by gens · 2017-03-09 · in CPython internals: A ten-hour codewalk through the Python interpreter (2015)
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    Libpng source code (submited for its documentation)
    story by gens · 2017-02-02 · 0 comments
  7. …is kind of vague; let's see what's actually going on. Here are the recent commits to libpng: https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/commits/libpng16 The first/latest one ("avoid potential pointer overflow") sounds scary, but I believe it's just…
    comment by comex · 2015-11-14 · in CVE-2015-8126: Multiple buffer overflows in libpng
  8. …also seems to be under heavy load. I found this mirror: https://github.com/glennrp/linpng-releases https://github.com/glennrp/libpng
    comment by whoopdedo · 2015-11-14 · in CVE-2015-8126: Multiple buffer overflows in libpng