saitoha libsixel until v1.8.7 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the component malloc_stub.c.
https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/issues/207
https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commit/e0ba6685262a3679cc5b9009c0c5b7dc8a3f262e
https://gist.github.com/optionGo/1100e5be05c5558501a95f5e99160584