Fedora 43 : libpng (2025-7f360be18f)

high Nessus Plugin ID 278626

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-7f360be18f advisory.

* Fixed CVE-2025-66293 (high severity):
Out-of-bounds read in `png_image_read_composite`.
* Fixed the Paeth filter handling in the RISC-V RVV implementation.
* Improved the performance of the RISC-V RVV implementation.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected 2:libpng package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 278626

File Name: fedora_2025-7f360be18f.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 12/14/2025

Updated: 12/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-66293

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpng, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:43

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-66293

FEDORA: 2025-7f360be18f

IAVA: 2025-A-0908

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