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CVE-2025-28162

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-01-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in libpng 1.6.43-1.6.46 allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the pngimage with AddressSanitizer (ASan), the program leaks memory in various locations, eventually leading to high memory usage and causing the program to become unresponsive

Affected products

• pnggroup libpng: from 1.6.43 through 1.6.46

References

• https://gist.github.com/kittener/fbfdb9b5610c6b3db0d5dea045a07c60
• https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/issues/656

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