CVE-2025-28162_CVE-2025-28162

5.5 / 10

MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-28162

Source mitre

Published Jan 27, 2026 at 00:00

Modified Jan 29, 2026 at 14:45

Affected Product

Vendor n/a

Product n/a

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CWE Classification

CWE-120

References

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