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The libpng tag on WindowsForum.com covers security vulnerabilities and patches for the libpng library, the canonical C library for reading and writing PNG images. Recent discussions focus on high-severity CVEs including use-after-free, heap buffer overflows, out-of-bounds reads, and integer truncation bugs affecting libpng versions through 1.6.55. Specific issues like CVE-2026-33416, CVE-2026-3713, CVE-2026-22801, CVE-2025-66293, CVE-2025-64506, and CVE-2025-64505 are detailed, with fixes in libpng 1.6.51 through 1.6.56. Threads emphasize the importance of updating libpng to mitigate denial-of-service, information disclosure, and application crash risks, particularly for enterprise IT and developers relying on this widely embedded library.
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    CVE-2026-33416: libpng Use-After-Free in Palette/Transparency (1.6.55 Fix 1.6.56)

    CVE-2026-33416 is a reminder that mature image libraries can still hide dangerous memory-safety bugs in code paths that look deceptively routine. Microsoft’s update guide frames the flaw as a use-after-free in libpng with high availability impact, and the PNG Project says the bug affects...
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    CVE-2026-3713: Heap Overflow in libpng pnm2png Contrib Tool

    A newly disclosed vulnerability in the pnggroup libpng project—tracked as CVE-2026-3713—allows a specially crafted PNM image to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow in the library’s pnm2png utility, and a public proof-of-concept has already been published. This bug stems from an...
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    CVE-2026-22801: Libpng stride bug causes heap read and DoS; fixed in 1.6.54

    A recently disclosed flaw in the libpng library — tracked as CVE-2026-22801 — creates an integer truncation in libpng's simplified write APIs that can lead to a heap buffer over‑read and consequent denial‑of‑service or information disclosure when applications call png_write_image_16bit() or...
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    Urgent libpng Patch 1.6.52 Fixes CVE-2025-66293 Out-of-Bounds Read

    LIBPNG’s maintainers have shipped an urgent patch after researchers discovered a high‑severity out‑of‑bounds read in the simplified read/write API: png_image_read_composite can read up to 1,012 bytes past the end of the png_sRGB_base array when processing valid palette PNGs that include partial...
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    • cve 2025 66293 image processing security libpng software supply chain
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    CVE-2025-64506 Libpng 1.6.51 Patch Fixes Heap Buffer Over-read in Write API

    A heap buffer over-read has been disclosed in the libpng library’s simplified write API: CVE-2025-64506 affects libpng versions 1.6.0 through 1.6.50 and is patched in libpng 1.6.51; the flaw stems from an incorrect conditional in png_write_image_8bit that can cause 8-bit image buffers to be...
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    • libpng memory safety patch guidance vulnerability
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    Libpng CVE-2025-64505 Patch 1.6.51 to Prevent PNG Palette Heap Read

    A recently disclosed vulnerability in the widely used LIBPNG library — tracked as CVE‑2025‑64505 — allows a crafted PNG file with malformed palette indices to provoke a heap buffer over‑read in libpng’s png_do_quantize routine; the issue is fixed in libpng 1.6.51, and maintainers and downstream...
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    • image processing libpng security advisory vulnerability
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