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High RHSA-2026:0251 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: libpng security update

Published Jan 8, 2026 · Updated Oct 16, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 libpng 2:1.5.13-8.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 libpng-debuginfo 2:1.5.13-8.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 libpng-devel 2:1.5.13-8.el7_9.1
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 libpng-static 2:1.5.13-8.el7_9.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • 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…

    pnggroup libpng openjpeg2 fltk Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine Wolfi

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2416904
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_0251.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-64720
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-64720
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64720
  • article
    https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/commit/08da33b4c88cfcd36e5a706558a8d7e0e4773643
  • article
    https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/issues/686
  • article
    https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/pull/751
  • article
    https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/security/advisories/GHSA-hfc7-ph9c-wcww