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CVE-2026-91186

8.4 high SSVC exploitation: none Published

The PNG chunk reader has no notion of chunk ordering. It records whether an IDAT has been seen and whether a tRNS has already supplied transparency, but nothing prevents an IHDR being read a second time. A PNG carries exactly one IHDR and it is the first chunk. A file that places a second one after IDAT rewrites the image width, height, bit depth and pixel depth *after* the decoded-data buffer has already been allocated and filled from the original values. The pass that reverses the PNG row filters then derives its own extent from the new dimensions and walks the old allocation, moving image bytes past the end of it. The buffer is allocated by GUIX rather than supplied by the caller, so the application has no way to size it defensively. The decoder is compiled in by default.

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Change history 6

  1. StatusAwaiting Analysis → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-20 15:28
  2. StatusPublished → Awaiting AnalysisNVD modified 2026-10-20 19:48
  3. StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-20 15:28
  4. StatusPublished → ReceivedNVD modified 2026-10-20 16:17
  5. StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-20 14:47
  6. First seenCVSS 8.4NVD modified 2026-10-20 15:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.

References 1