CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-28162
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-01-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- 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 configurations
• libpng libpng (>= 1.6.43 <= 1.6.46)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- https://gist.github.com/kittener/fbfdb9b5610c6b3db0d5dea045a07c60 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/issues/656 Exploit, Issue Tracking