Issued:
2026-02-23
Updated:
2026-02-23

RHSA-2026:3031 - Important: libpng15 security update

Synopsis

Important: libpng15 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for libpng15 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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 libpng15 package provides libpng 1.5, an older version of the libpng. library for manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. This version should be used only if you are unable to use the current version of libpng.

Security Fix(es):

  • 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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_649x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian9ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems9s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 649aarch64

Updated Packages

  • libpng15-debuginfo-1.5.30-14.el9_7.1.aarch64.rpm
  • libpng15-1.5.30-14.el9_7.1.aarch64.rpm
  • libpng15-debuginfo-1.5.30-14.el9_7.1.i686.rpm
  • libpng15-debugsource-1.5.30-14.el9_7.1.s390x.rpm
  • libpng15-1.5.30-14.el9_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • libpng15-debugsource-1.5.30-14.el9_7.1.x86_64.rpm
  • libpng15-1.5.30-14.el9_7.1.i686.rpm
  • libpng15-debuginfo-1.5.30-14.el9_7.1.s390x.rpm
  • libpng15-debugsource-1.5.30-14.el9_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • libpng15-debuginfo-1.5.30-14.el9_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • libpng15-debugsource-1.5.30-14.el9_7.1.aarch64.rpm
  • libpng15-debugsource-1.5.30-14.el9_7.1.i686.rpm
  • libpng15-1.5.30-14.el9_7.1.s390x.rpm
  • libpng15-debuginfo-1.5.30-14.el9_7.1.x86_64.rpm
  • libpng15-1.5.30-14.el9_7.1.src.rpm
  • libpng15-1.5.30-14.el9_7.1.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information