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Libpng 1.6.51: Four buffer overflow vulnerabilities fixed

14 hours ago
  • #buffer-overflow
  • #security
  • #libpng
  • libpng 1.6.51 released to fix four buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
  • Two high-severity (CVE-2025-64720, CVE-2025-65018) and two moderate-severity (CVE-2025-64505, CVE-2025-64506) vulnerabilities addressed.
  • Vulnerabilities include heap buffer over-reads and out-of-bounds reads.
  • All require processing a malicious PNG file, leading to information disclosure, denial of service, or arbitrary code execution.
  • GitHub Security Advisories and specific commit fixes provided for each CVE.
  • Users urged to upgrade to libpng 1.6.51 immediately.