CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-22695
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-01-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
LIBPNG is a reference library for use in applications that read, create, and manipulate PNG (Portable Network Graphics) raster image files. From 1.6.51 to 1.6.53, there is a heap buffer over-read in the libpng simplified API function png_image_finish_read when processing interlaced 16-bit PNGs with 8-bit output format and non-minimal row stride. This is a regression introduced by the fix for CVE-2025-65018. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.6.54.
Affected configurations
• libpng libpng (>= 1.6.51 < 1.6.54)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/commit/218612ddd6b17944e21eda56caf8b4bf7779d1ea Patch
- https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/commit/e4f7ad4ea2 Patch
- https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/issues/778 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/security/advisories/GHSA-mmq5-27w3-rxpp Exploit, Third Party Advisory