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Fedora 43 libpng Medium Buffer Over-Read Advisories 2026-a9ae661fa2

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Update for libpng fixes medium severity buffer over-reads and potential denial of service for Fedora 43.
Version 1.6.54 [January 12, 2026] Fixed CVE-2026-22695 (medium severity): Heap buffer over-read in png_image_read_direct_scaled

Summary

The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and

manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNG

is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. PNG was

created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data

compression algorithm.

Libpng should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG format image

files.

Update Information:

Version 1.6.54 [January 12, 2026] Fixed CVE-2026-22695 (medium severity): Heap buffer over-read in png_image_read_direct_scaled. Fixed CVE-2026-22801 (medium severity): Integer truncation causing heap buffer over-read in png_image_write_*. Version 1.6.55 [February 9, 2026] Fixed CVE-2026-25646 (high severity): Heap buffer overflow in png_set_quantize.

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Change Log

* Fri Feb 13 2026 Michal Hlavinka - 2:1.6.55-1 - updated to 1.6.55 (#2429529) * Wed Feb 11 2026 Michal Hlavinka - 2:1.6.54-1 - updated to 1.6.54 * Fri Jan 16 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 2:1.6.53-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2437248 - CVE-2026-22801 libpng: libpng: Information disclosure and denial of service via integer truncation in simplified write API [fedora-43] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2437248 [ 2 ] Bug #2438669 - CVE-2026-25646 libpng: LIBPNG has a heap buffer overflow in png_set_quantize [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2438669 [ 3 ] Bug #2438681 - CVE-2026-25646 libpng: LIBPNG has a heap buffer overflow in png_set_quantize [fedora-43] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2438681

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-a9ae661fa2' 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: libpng
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 1.6.55
Release: 1.fc43
URL: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
Summary: A library of functions for manipulating PNG image format files

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