USN-8639-1: libpng vulnerabilities

USN-8639-1: libpng vulnerabilities

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Patrick Keshishian discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certain text chunks. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-10087) It was discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certain malformed images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-14048) It was discovered that libpng incorrectly handled memory when freeing certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-7317) It was discovered that libpng incorrectly handled memory when processing certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-33416) It was discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-33636) It was discovered that libpng incorrectly handled memory when processing certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-34757) Seung Min Shin discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certain animated images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libpng to misinterpret image data. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-40930)

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