CVE-2025-28162

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.2%

Medium (5.5) in libpng libpng. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 5% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-120
Published: 2026-01-27
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

libpng:libpng

References

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

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