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Medium ALAS2-2025-3113 2 CVEs

Moderate: libpng12 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jan 5, 2026 · Updated Jan 5, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-64720: LIBPNG is a reference library for use in applications that read, create, and manipulate PNG (Portable Network Graphics) raster image files. From version 1.6.0 to before 1.6.51, an out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in png_image_read_composite when processing palette images with PNG_FLAG_OPTIMIZE_ALPHA enabled. The palette compositing code in png_init_read_transformations incorrectly applies background compositing during premultiplication, violating the invariant component <= alpha x 257 required by the simplified PNG API. This issue has been patched in version 1.6.51. CVE-2025-64505: 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.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 libpng12 0:1.2.50-10.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 libpng12-debuginfo 0:1.2.50-10.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 libpng12-devel 0:1.2.50-10.amzn2.0.3

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 7.1
    CVE-2025-64720 Public exploit

    LIBPNG is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in `png_image_read_composite` via incorrect palette premultiplication

    LIBPNG is a reference library for use in applications that read, create, and manipulate PNG (Portable Network Graphics) raster image files. From version 1.6.0 to before 1.6.51, an out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in png_image_read_composite when proces…

  • Medium 6.1

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

    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 process…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-64505.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-64720.html