CVE-2025-28162

Name	CVE-2025-28162
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
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
libpng1.6 (PTS)	bullseye	1.6.37-3	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	1.6.37-3+deb11u1	vulnerable
	bookworm, bookworm (security)	1.6.39-2+deb12u1	vulnerable
	trixie (security), trixie	1.6.48-1+deb13u1	vulnerable
	forky, sid	1.6.54-1	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
libpng1.6	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/issues/656
https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/pull/657
check, negligible impact