CVE-2026-33636

A flaw was found in libpng. A remote attacker could exploit an out-of-bounds read and write vulnerability in the ARM/AArch64 Neon-optimized palette expansion path. This occurs when processing a final partial chunk of 8-bit paletted rows without verifying sufficient input pixels, leading to dereferencing pointers before the start of the row buffer and writing expanded pixel data to underflowed positions. This flaw can result in information disclosure and denial of service.

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Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.