Issued at: 2026-04-09
Updated at: 2026-04-10
Synopsis
Important: libpng12 security update
Description
The libpng12 package provides libpng 1.2, which is the previous version of the libpng library for manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. This version should be used in case that it is not possible 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.
Affected products
Rocky Linux 8 aarch64
Rocky Linux 8 x86_64
Fixes
2438542
CVEs
CVE-2026-25646
Affected packages
Rocky Linux 8 aarch64 - AppStream
libpng12-0:1.2.57-6.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
libpng12-0:1.2.57-6.el8_10.src.rpm
libpng12-debuginfo-0:1.2.57-6.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
libpng12-debugsource-0:1.2.57-6.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
Rocky Linux 8 x86_64 - AppStream
libpng12-0:1.2.57-6.el8_10.i686.rpm
libpng12-0:1.2.57-6.el8_10.src.rpm
libpng12-0:1.2.57-6.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
libpng12-debuginfo-0:1.2.57-6.el8_10.i686.rpm
libpng12-debuginfo-0:1.2.57-6.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
libpng12-debugsource-0:1.2.57-6.el8_10.i686.rpm
libpng12-debugsource-0:1.2.57-6.el8_10.x86_64.rpm