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Fedora 42: mingw-libpng Important Heap Buffer Overflow Vuln 2025-9d0f04f316

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Calendar Grey December 9, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical update for mingw-libpng 1.6.51 addresses important heap buffer overflow issues, ensuring Fedora 42 user security.
Update to libpng-1.6.51.

Summary

MinGW Windows Libpng library.

Update Information:

Update to libpng-1.6.51.

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update important heap buffer overflow mingw-libpng

Change Log

* Sun Nov 30 2025 Sandro Mani - 1.6.51-1 - Update to 1.6.51 * Thu Jul 24 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.6.50-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild * Fri Jul 18 2025 Sandro Mani - 1.6.50-1 - Update to 1.6.50 * Tue Jun 17 2025 Sandro Mani - 1.6.49-1 - Update to 1.6.49 * Tue May 6 2025 Sandro Mani - 1.6.48-1 - Update to 1.6.48 * Thu Feb 20 2025 Sandro Mani - 1.6.47-1 - Update to 1.6.47 * Fri Feb 7 2025 Sandro Mani - 1.6.46-1 - Update to 1.6.46

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2417439 - CVE-2025-64720 mingw-libpng: LIBPNG buffer overflow [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2417439 [ 2 ] Bug #2417458 - CVE-2025-65018 mingw-libpng: LIBPNG heap buffer overflow [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2417458 [ 3 ] Bug #2417468 - CVE-2025-64506 mingw-libpng: LIBPNG heap buffer over-read [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2417468 [ 4 ] Bug #2418413 - CVE-2025-64505 mingw-libpng: LIBPNG heap buffer overflow via malformed palette index [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418413

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-9d0f04f316' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: mingw-libpng
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 1.6.51
Release: 1.fc42
URL: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
Summary: MinGW Windows Libpng library

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update important heap buffer overflow mingw-libpng

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