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🛡️ RSEC-2026-1 — png (CVE-2026-25646)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Risk of Buffer Overflow Vulnerability when installed from source on Windows R < 4.2

Installing the png package from source on Windows could download and install an older version of libpng that has known vulnerabilities.

On Windows R versions < 4.2, building the png package will download an archived libpng 1.5.4 from 2011. Note that on R versions 4.2 or newer, libpng is bundled in the relevant Rtools42+ and is not downloaded during png package installation. Check the Rtools release notes to see if the vulnerability applies.

Where the vulnerable libpng is used, this represents a risk of buffer overflow when reading certain png files.

Affected software

RSEC-2026-1 is recorded against 1 package.

  • png (from 0.1-3 up to 0.1-9)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 March 2026 and last revised on 26 March 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)
github.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-03-13
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-03-26
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
png 0.1-3 0.1-9

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