CVE-2025-64720 (GCVE-0-2025-64720)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-24 23:45 – Updated: 2025-11-25 19:28
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
LIBPNG is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in `png_image_read_composite` via incorrect palette premultiplication
Summary
LIBPNG is a reference library for use in applications that read, create, and manipulate PNG (Portable Network Graphics) raster image files. From version 1.6.0 to before 1.6.51, an out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in png_image_read_composite when processing palette images with PNG_FLAG_OPTIMIZE_ALPHA enabled. The palette compositing code in png_init_read_transformations incorrectly applies background compositing during premultiplication, violating the invariant component ≤ alpha × 257 required by the simplified PNG API. This issue has been patched in version 1.6.51.
Severity
7.1 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-11-25 19:28 UTC
CWE
- CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/security/advis… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/issues/686 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/pull/751 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/commit/08da33b… | x_refsource_MISC |
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