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Fedora 42: timg Memory-Safety Fixes Update FEDORA-2025-f0df882417

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Calendar Grey December 5, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 42 timg update provides memory-safety fixes, enhancing terminal image handling and security compliance.
Rebuilt with latest patched stb_image: memory-safety fixes

Summary

A user-friendly terminal image viewer that uses graphic capabilities of

terminals (Sixel, Kitty or iTerm2), or 24-bit color capabilities and Unicode

character blocks if these are not available. On terminals that implement the

Sixel protocol, the Kitty Graphics Protocol, or the iTerm2 Graphics Protocol,

this displays images in full resolution.

Update Information:

Rebuilt with latest patched stb_image: memory-safety fixes

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update memory safety timg 2025-f0df882417

Change Log

* Tue Nov 25 2025 Benjamin A. Beasley - 1.6.3-4 - Add dependencies on -static virtual Provides for header-only libs * Tue Nov 25 2025 Benjamin A. Beasley - 1.6.3-3 - Rebuilt with latest patched stb_image: memory-safety fixes * Wed Oct 15 2025 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski - 1.6.3-2 - Rebuilt for FFmpeg 8

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-f0df882417 2025-12-05 02:40:12.306036+00:00 Name : timg Product : Fedora 42 Version : 1.6.3 Release : 5.fc42 URL : https://github.com/hzeller/timg Summary : A terminal image and video viewer Description : A user-friendly terminal image viewer that uses graphic capabilities of terminals (Sixel, Kitty or iTerm2), or 24-bit color capabilities and Unicode character blocks if these are not available. On terminals that implement the Sixel protocol, the Kitty Graphics Protocol, or the iTerm2 Graphics Protocol, this displays images in full resolution.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-f0df882417' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: timg
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 1.6.3
Release: 5.fc42
URL: https://github.com/hzeller/timg
Summary: A terminal image and video viewer

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update memory safety timg 2025-f0df882417

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