CVE-2025-28162: Libpng

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in libpng 1.6.43-1.6.46 allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the pngimage with AddressSanitizer (ASan), the program leaks memory in various locations, eventually leading to high memory usage and causing the program to become unresponsive

Affected products

• Libpng Libpng: from 1.6.43, up to and including 1.6.46

Published 2026-01-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.