CVE-2025-64505 (GCVE-0-2025-64505)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-24 23:38 – Updated: 2025-11-25 18:55
VLAI
Title
LIBPNG is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow in `png_do_quantize` via malformed palette index
Summary
LIBPNG is a reference library for use in applications that read, create, and manipulate PNG (Portable Network Graphics) raster image files. Prior to version 1.6.51, a heap buffer over-read vulnerability exists in libpng's png_do_quantize function when processing PNG files with malformed palette indices. The vulnerability occurs when palette_lookup array bounds are not validated against externally-supplied image data, allowing an attacker to craft a PNG file with out-of-range palette indices that trigger out-of-bounds memory access. This issue has been patched in version 1.6.51.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-11-25 18:55 UTC
CWE
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7552 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
pnggroup libpng Affected: < 1.6.51
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