SUSE SLES15 Security Update : libpng16 (SUSE-SU-2025:4436-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 279066

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:4436-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-65018: Fixed heap buffer overflow in `png_combine_row` triggered via `png_image_finish_read` (bsc#1254160)
- CVE-2025-66293: Fixed LIBPNG out-of-bounds read in `png_image_read_composite` (bsc#1254480)
- CVE-2025-64506: Fixed heap buffer over-read in `png_write_image_8bit` with 8-bit input and `convert_to_8bit` enabled (bsc#1254158)
- CVE-2025-64720: Fixed buffer overflow in `png_image_read_composite` via incorrect palette premultiplication (bsc#1254159)
- CVE-2025-64505: Fixed heap buffer over-read in `png_do_quantize` via malformed palette index (bsc#1254157)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected libpng16-16, libpng16-16-32bit, libpng16-compat-devel and / or libpng16-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 279066

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4436-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/18/2025

Updated: 12/18/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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: 6.4

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpng16-compat-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpng16-16, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpng16-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpng16-16-32bit

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/24/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-64505, CVE-2025-64506, CVE-2025-64720, CVE-2025-65018, CVE-2025-66293

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4436-1

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