CVE-2025-28162

MEDIUM

5.5

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

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score5.5

SeverityMEDIUM

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

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published1/27/2026

Last Modified2/6/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

libpng:libpng

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-120

References

https://gist.github.com/kittener/fbfdb9b5610c6b3db0d5dea045a07c60(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/issues/656(cve@mitre.org)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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