USN-8035-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2025-66293)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-02-12 13:37 – Updated: 2026-09-11 12:08 – Source website
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Summary
libpng1.6 vulnerabilities
Details

It was discovered that the libpng simplified API incorrectly processed palette PNG images with partial transparency and gamma correction. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted PNG file, an attacker could use this issue to cause libpng to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2025-66293)

Petr Simecek, Stanislav Fort and Pavel Kohout discovered that the libpng simplified API incorrectly processed interlaced 16-bit PNGs with 8-bit output format and non-minimal row strides. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted PNG file, an attacker could use this issue to cause libpng to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-22695)

Cosmin Truta discovered that the libpng simplified API incorrectly handled invalid row strides. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted PNG file, an attacker could use this issue to cause libpng to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-22801)

It was discovered that the libpng simplified API incorrectly handled quantizing RGB images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted PNG file, an attacker could use this issue to cause libpng to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-25646)

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