CVE-2025-28164
An attacker can exploit multiple vulnerabilities in libpng to conduct a Denial of Service attack.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Multiple vulnerabilities enable denial of service attacks against libpng.
- Who is affected
- All applications and systems using libpng are potentially vulnerable to denial of service.
- Urgency
- Medium priority; denial of service impacts availability but exploitation requires specific attack conditions.
- Action
- Update libpng to a version addressing CVE-2025-28162 and CVE-2025-28164.
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.14% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 3% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (1)
- medium[UPDATE] [medium] libpng: Multiple vulnerabilities enable Denial of Servicecert-bund · 2026-08-12
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