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Imager-1.037
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Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2026-112202 (2026-10-20)

Imager::File::GIF versions before 1.006 for Perl allow out-of-bounds reads when consolidating GIF images. With `gif_consolidate => 1`, palette indices from the image are used without checking the colour table's bounds. The i_readgif_low routine reads beyond the heap allocation and copies the bytes into output pixels. The default GIF reader is not affected. The same code ships bundled in the Imager distribution. An attacker supplying a crafted GIF can disclose adjacent heap memory through the decoded output and may crash the process.

NAME

Imager::Handy - simple access to common functions

SYNOPSIS

use Imager ':handy';
my $color = NC(255, 0, 0);
my $font = NF(1.0, 0, 0);

DESCRIPTION

If you use Imager with the :handy import tag, it will export a number of functions that can shorter your code.

NC()
newcolor()
newcolour()

Create a new Imager::Color object, supplying any parameters to the new() method.

my $color = NC('red');
NF()
newfont()

Create a new Imager::Font object, supplying any parameters to the new() method.

my $font = NF(file => 'foo.ttf');
NCF()

Create a new Imager::Color::Float object, supplying any parameters to the new() method.

my $colorf = NCF(1.0, 0, 0);

BUGS

NC() can be mostly replaced by supplying the color name or other description directly to the drawing method.

AUTHOR

Tony Cook <tonyc@cpan.org>