CVE-2025-28162

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 97% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: January 27, 2026 (108 days ago)
Last Modified: January 27, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat

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

CWE

CWE-120

Affected Products

Red Hat build of OpenJDK 11 ELSRed Hat build of OpenJDK 17Red Hat build of OpenJDK 1.8Red Hat build of OpenJDK 21Red Hat build of OpenJDK 25Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 gist.github.com 🔗 github.com