| 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 | fixed |
| forky | 1.6.54-1 | fixed |
| sid | 1.6.55-1 | fixed |
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) | 1.6.47-1 | unimportant | | |
Notes
[bookworm] - libpng1.6 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - libpng1.6 <postponed> (Minor issue, memory leak)
https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/issues/656
https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/pull/657
Fixed by: https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/commit/b20e6fb31479868f1d5f5cd268d4776767016941 (v1.6.47)
No security impact, memory leak in CLI tool