CVE-2026-40930 (GCVE-0-2026-40930)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-06-04 14:34
Modified
2026-06-04 16:37
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-436 - Interpretation Conflict
Summary
LIBPNG is a reference library for use in applications that process PNG (Portable Network Graphics) raster image files. In version 1.8.0, three inter-frame chunk discard paths in the push-mode APNG parser clear the chunk-header flag without consuming the chunk body and CRC, allowing attacker-controlled bytes inside an ignored ancillary chunk to be reinterpreted as a fresh chunk header on the next call to `png_process_data`. Commit faf06924688b62d7c1654b5ceddedbde66ffadb4 fixes the issue.
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
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| pnggroup | libpng |
Version: = 1.8.0 |
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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