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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : libpng16 (SUSE-SU-2026:0364-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 297833

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0364-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-28162: memory leaks when running `pngimage` (bsc#1257364).
 - CVE-2025-28164: memory leaks when running `pngimage` (bsc#1257365).
 - CVE-2026-22695: Fixed heap buffer over-read in png_image_finish_read (bsc#1256525).

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257364

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257365

http://www.nessus.org/u?a4a9e24b

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-28162

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-28164

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 297833

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0364-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/4/2026

Updated: 2/4/2026

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-28164

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/3/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-28162, CVE-2025-28164

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0364-1