From d65bac979db317cfc6e0db1b48d03f668eaa80e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Marriott <nicholas.marriott@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 12:36:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Do not try to allocate zero size colours, GitHub issue 4674.

---
 image-sixel.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/image-sixel.c b/image-sixel.c
index fac7eab9..1c93d7a7 100644
--- a/image-sixel.c
+++ b/image-sixel.c
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ sixel_scale(struct sixel_image *si, u_int xpixel, u_int ypixel, u_int ox,
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (colours) {
+	if (colours && si->ncolours != 0) {
 		new->colours = xmalloc(si->ncolours * sizeof *new->colours);
 		for (i = 0; i < si->ncolours; i++)
 			new->colours[i] = si->colours[i];