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CVE-2025-64505 json

LIBPNG is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow in `png_do_quantize` via malformed palette index

published 2025-11-24 11 mo ago modified 2026-10-18 21 d ago also EUVD-2025-199239 , JLSEC-2025-328

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

LIBPNG is a reference library for use in applications that read, create, and manipulate PNG (Portable Network Graphics) raster image files. Prior to version 1.6.51, a heap buffer over-read vulnerability exists in libpng's png_do_quantize function when processing PNG files with malformed palette indices. The vulnerability occurs when palette_lookup array bounds are not validated against externally-supplied image data, allowing an attacker to craft a PNG file with out-of-range palette indices that trigger out-of-bounds memory access. This issue has been patched in version 1.6.51.

Patch / fix

  • julia libpng_jll 1.6.51+0
  • libpng libpng 1.6.51
  • libpng1.6 Debian 12 1.6.39-2+deb12u1
  • libpng1.6 Debian 13 1.6.48-1+deb13u1
  • libpng1.6 Debian 14 1.6.51-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-64505

  • libpng1.6 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 1.6.37-3ubuntu0.1
  • libpng1.6 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 1.6.43-5ubuntu0.1
  • libpng1.6 Ubuntu 25.10 1.6.50-1ubuntu0.1
  • libpng Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.3+esm1
  • libpng Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1.2.54-1ubuntu1.1+esm2
  • libpng1.6 Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1.6.20-2ubuntu0.1~esm2
  • libpng1.6 Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 1.6.34-1ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm1
  • libpng1.6 Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 1.6.37-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-64505

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • libpng hummingbird 1 1.6.56-1.hum1
  • libpng-tools hummingbird 1 1.6.56-1.hum1

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:6732

  • libpng16 Linux Micro 6.1 1.6.58-slfo.1.1_1.1
  • libpng16 Linux Micro 6.0 1.6.58-1.1
  • libpng16 SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 1.6.44-160000.3.1
  • libpng16 SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 1.6.40-150600.3.3.1
  • libpng16 SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES for SAP 15 SP3 +15 more 1.6.34-150000.3.12.1
  • libpng12 SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 1.2.57-150000.4.3.1
  • libpng16 Linux Micro 6.0 1.6.43-2.1
  • libpng16 Linux Micro 6.1 1.6.43-slfo.1.1_2.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:23514-1SUSE-SU-2026:23063-1SUSE-SU-2026:0898-1SUSE-SU-2026:20030-1SUSE-SU-2026:20073-1SUSE-SU-2025:4533-1

  • libpng16 openSUSE Leap 16.0 1.6.44-160000.3.1
  • libpng12 openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.2.59-4.1
  • libpng16 openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.6.51-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20017-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15797-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15781-1

  • libpng Alpine 3.21, Alpine 3.20 1.6.53-r0
  • libpng Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 1.6.51-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-64505

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • libpng CBL-Mariner 2.0, Azure Linux 3.0 1.6.51-1

azure linux advisories AZL-70763AZL-70969

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-64505 updated cvss 4.4

libpng: LIBPNG heap buffer overflow via malformed palette index

  • Red Hat build of OpenJDK 1.8 java-1.8.0-openjdk-portable Red Hat build of OpenJDK 11 ELS java-11-openjdk, java-11-openjdk-portable, java-21-openjdk-portable Red Hat build of OpenJDK 17 java-17-openjdk-portable, java-21-openjdk-portable Red Hat build of OpenJDK 21 java-21-openjdk-portable, java-21-openjdk-portable-rhel7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libpng Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libpng, firefox, libpng12
    +4 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 libpng, firefox, libpng12, libpng15, thunderbird, mingw-libpng, +65 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 libpng, firefox, libpng15, firefox-x11, thunderbird, java-17-openjdk, +59 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 libpng, firefox, thunderbird, java-21-openjdk, java-25-openjdk Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Hardened Images libpng 1.6.56-1.hum1, libpng-tools 1.6.56-1.hum1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:6732

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
11 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia libpng_jll
<1.6.51+0
1.6.51+0

Affected products

  • pnggroup libpng

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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