Medium [CVE-2026-22695] Denial of service and information disclosure via heap buffer over-read in png_image_finish_read
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-22695 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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Summary
Denial of service and information disclosure via heap buffer over-read in png_image_finish_read. Red Hat rates this moderate (CVSS 6.1).
Weakness: CWE-125. Affected package(s): libpng, discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9:1773273070, rhaiis/vllm-rocm-rhel9:1775680262, rhaiis/vllm-cuda-rhel9:1775680192, rhceph/rhceph, java.
Resolved in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:5606 — update the affected packages (`sudo dnf update`).
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 1.
- libpng-2:1.6.37-12.el9_0.2
- libpng-2:1.6.37-12.el9_2.2
- discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9:1773273070
- rhaiis/vllm-rocm-rhel9:1775680262
- rhaiis/vllm-cuda-rhel9:1775680192
- rhceph/rhceph-8-rhel9:1774002867
- libpng-2:1.6.34-10.el8_10
- java-11-openjdk-1:11.0.31.0.11-1.el8
- libpng-2:1.6.34-8.el8_4.2
- java-11-openjdk-1:11.0.31.0.11-1.el7_9
- libpng-2:1.6.40-8.el10_0.2
- libpng-2:1.6.34-8.el8_6.2
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
- RHSA-2026:5606
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Update the affected package(s) to the fixed version shipped in RHSA-2026:5606 (`sudo dnf update` / `yum update`).
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source
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