RHSA-2026:3573 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: libpng security update

Loading…

Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · March 3, 2026

Updated · October 31, 2026

Topic

An update for libpng is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The libpng packages contain a library of functions for creating and manipulating Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format files.

Security Fix(es):

  • libpng: libpng: Information disclosure and denial of service via integer truncation in simplified write API (CVE-2026-22801)

  • libpng: libpng: Denial of service and information disclosure via heap buffer over-read in png_image_finish_read (CVE-2026-22695)

  • libpng: LIBPNG has a heap buffer overflow in png_set_quantize (CVE-2026-25646)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2026:3573 — Red Hat Security Advisory: libpng security update | PulseLinux