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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-64720

🗓️ 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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Linux hosts have unpatched vulnerability CVE-2025-64720 in Debian libpng1.6 with no vendor patch.

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  - LIBPNG is a reference library for use in applications that read, create, and manipulate PNG (Portable
    Network Graphics) raster image files. From version 1.6.0 to before 1.6.51, an out-of-bounds read
    vulnerability exists in png_image_read_composite when processing palette images with
    PNG_FLAG_OPTIMIZE_ALPHA enabled. The palette compositing code in png_init_read_transformations incorrectly
    applies background compositing during premultiplication, violating the invariant component  alpha  257
    required by the simplified PNG API. This issue has been patched in version 1.6.51. (CVE-2025-64720)

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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libpng");
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if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

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  "Ubuntu Linux-25.04": {
    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "25.04",
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          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-ar"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-ast"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-be"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-bg"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-bn"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-bn-bd"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-br"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-ca"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-cak"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-cs"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-cy"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-da"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-de"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-dsb"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-el"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-en"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-en-gb"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-en-us"},
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          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-es-ar"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-es-es"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-et"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-eu"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-fa"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-fi"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-fr"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-fy"},
          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-fy-nl"},
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          {"reference": "thunderbird-locale-ga-ie"},
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        "release": "6",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "libpng"},
          {"reference": "libpng-devel"},
          {"reference": "libpng-static"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "CentOS Linux-7": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
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        "release": "7",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "java-11-openjdk"},
          {"reference": "java-11-openjdk-debug"},
          {"reference": "java-11-openjdk-demo"},
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  }
};

var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}

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06 Mar 2026 00:00Current
6.3Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.3
CVSS 3.17.1
EPSS0.00407
SSVC
9