diff --git a/docs/CHALLENGES.md b/docs/CHALLENGES.md
index 72af4b3..51d9bfd 100644
--- a/docs/CHALLENGES.md
+++ b/docs/CHALLENGES.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ the source.
 
 The pattern across them is the reason the document exists: **almost nothing
 here was found by reading code or by a test written from imagination.** Of
-407 defects, 327 were found only by running against a real device. Eighteen
+408 defects, 328 were found only by running against a real device. Eighteen
 more — 255, 280, 282, 327, 329, 353, 355, 356, 359, 371, 375, 380, 382, 384, 386, 387, 388 and 406 — were met while
 running against one, though the fault lay in a check, the host or Mobium's own
 design rather than in the platform. The other sixty-two — 4, 5, 6, 14, 23,
@@ -8885,6 +8885,20 @@ bytecode. It prints where and what kind, never the value, since a public
 repository's CI log is public. Its selftest holds each rule to a case it must
 flag, and a leak planted in a staged file failed `make docs-check`.
 
+### 408. A car's screenshots carried a warning after the image
+
+**Found by:** stills for Morpho Market's README, cut from a trace of checkout
+test A on the Android Automotive 15 emulator. `ffmpeg` read every one as
+damaged. 38 of the 39 screenshots, and a plain `mobium screenshot`, ended in
+"FORTIFY: pthread_mutex_lock called on a destroyed mutex", which `screencap`
+wrote to stdout after the PNG's IEND chunk; image viewers ignore it, strict
+decoders do not. The same capture opens with "[Warning] Multiple displays
+were found", which 211's rule already skips.
+
+**Fixed:** a capture is cut at its IEND chunk when a short line of text
+follows, the rule 211 applies to text before it; anything else after it is
+refused. The same screenshot then ended at its IEND.
+
 ## Findings that were not defects
 
 Worth recording because each one closed off an approach that looked obvious.
diff --git a/docs/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md b/docs/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md
index 750cf22..dc5c2cb 100644
--- a/docs/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md
+++ b/docs/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 [CI workflow](../.github/workflows/ci.yml) runs on every push — formatting,
 vet, both modules' tests, the four non-Go clients' own tests, and six
 cross-compile targets. This file is the rest, and the rest is where most
-serious defects in this project have come from: 327 of 407 were found only by
+serious defects in this project have come from: 328 of 408 were found only by
 running against a real device.
 
 Work through it before tagging a release, on three substrates: an Android
diff --git a/internal/mobiumdriver/android.go b/internal/mobiumdriver/android.go
index 36c4843..c53ee19 100644
--- a/internal/mobiumdriver/android.go
+++ b/internal/mobiumdriver/android.go
@@ -221,7 +221,8 @@ func (a *Android) Screenshot(ctx context.Context) ([]byte, error) {
 	return png, nil
 }
 
-// maxVendorPrefix bounds the text skipped ahead of a capture's PNG.
+// maxVendorPrefix bounds the text skipped ahead of a capture's PNG, and cut
+// after it.
 const maxVendorPrefix = 4096
 
 // pngIn is the PNG in what screencap wrote, past any lines a vendor library
@@ -236,14 +237,36 @@ func pngIn(out []byte) ([]byte, bool) {
 	if i < 0 {
 		return nil, false
 	}
-	if i == 0 {
-		return out, true
+	if i > 0 {
+		prefix := out[:i]
+		if i > maxVendorPrefix || prefix[len(prefix)-1] != '\n' || bytes.IndexByte(prefix, 0) >= 0 {
+			return nil, false
+		}
+	}
+	return withoutTrailer(out[i:])
+}
+
+// pngEnd is the IEND chunk every PNG ends with: no data, and its CRC.
+var pngEnd = []byte{0, 0, 0, 0, 'I', 'E', 'N', 'D', 0xAE, 0x42, 0x60, 0x82}
+
+// withoutTrailer is png without text written after it. The Android
+// Automotive 15 emulator printed "FORTIFY: pthread_mutex_lock called on a
+// destroyed mutex" after 38 of 39 captures, and the files kept it
+// (CHALLENGES 408). Only a short line of text is cut, as with a prefix; a
+// capture with no IEND is left as it is.
+func withoutTrailer(png []byte) ([]byte, bool) {
+	j := bytes.LastIndex(png, pngEnd)
+	if j < 0 {
+		return png, true
+	}
+	tail := png[j+len(pngEnd):]
+	if len(tail) == 0 {
+		return png, true
 	}
-	prefix := out[:i]
-	if i > maxVendorPrefix || prefix[len(prefix)-1] != '\n' || bytes.IndexByte(prefix, 0) >= 0 {
+	if len(tail) > maxVendorPrefix || bytes.IndexByte(tail, 0) >= 0 {
 		return nil, false
 	}
-	return out[i:], true
+	return png[:j+len(pngEnd)], true
 }
 
 // Tap touches a point in device pixels.
diff --git a/internal/mobiumdriver/screencap_test.go b/internal/mobiumdriver/screencap_test.go
index 2450996..d8fc385 100644
--- a/internal/mobiumdriver/screencap_test.go
+++ b/internal/mobiumdriver/screencap_test.go
@@ -36,3 +36,31 @@ func TestPNGInSkipsAVendorLine(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// The trailer is what the Android Automotive 15 emulator printed after 38 of
+// 39 captures in one test run, 2026-11-11.
+func TestPNGInCutsAVendorLineAfterIt(t *testing.T) {
+	png := append(append(append([]byte(nil), pngMagic...), "\x00\x00\x00\rIHDR"...), pngEnd...)
+	trailer := []byte("FORTIFY: pthread_mutex_lock called on a destroyed mutex (0x7ad10360c8)\n")
+	cases := []struct {
+		name string
+		in   []byte
+		ok   bool
+	}{
+		{"a whole capture", png, true},
+		{"the car's line after it", append(append([]byte(nil), png...), trailer...), true},
+		{"lines before and after it", append(append([]byte("[Warning] Multiple displays were found\n"), png...), trailer...), true},
+		{"binary after it", append(append([]byte(nil), png...), "\x00\x01junk"...), false},
+		{"too much after it", append(append([]byte(nil), png...), strings.Repeat("x", maxVendorPrefix+1)...), false},
+	}
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		got, ok := pngIn(c.in)
+		if ok != c.ok {
+			t.Errorf("%s: ok=%v, want %v", c.name, ok, c.ok)
+			continue
+		}
+		if ok && !bytes.Equal(got, png) {
+			t.Errorf("%s: got %d bytes, want the PNG's %d", c.name, len(got), len(png))
+		}
+	}
+}