CVE-2025-8851 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Libtiff

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-121 — Stack-based Buffer OverflowCWE-805 — Buffer Access with Incorrect Length Value9 documents8 sources
Severity
4.8MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.25%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Libtiff
Timeline
PublishedAug 11
Latest updateAug 20

Description

A vulnerability was determined in LibTIFF up to 4.5.1. Affected by this issue is the function readSeparateStripsetoBuffer of the file tools/tiffcrop.c of the component tiffcrop. The manipulation leads to stack-based buffer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack. The patch is identified as 8a7a48d7a645992ca83062b3a1873c951661e2b3. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDlibtiff/libtiff4.5.1
▶CVEListV5libtiff/libtiff4.5.0, 4.5.1+1

Patches

Patch: gitlab.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
tiff vulnerabilities↗2025-08-20
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GHSA
GHSA-mcqf-6qjh-v78v: A vulnerability was determined in LibTIFF up to 4↗2025-08-11
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OSV
CVE-2025-8851: A vulnerability was determined in LibTIFF up to 4↗2025-08-11
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CVEList
LibTIFF tiffcrop tiffcrop.c readSeparateStripsetoBuffer stack-based overflow↗2025-08-11
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
LibTIFF vulnerabilities↗2025-08-20
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Microsoft
LibTIFF tiffcrop tiffcrop.c readSeparateStripsetoBuffer stack-based overflow↗2025-08-12
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Red Hat
libtiff: LibTIFF Stack-based buffer overflow↗2025-08-11
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Debian
CVE-2025-8851: tiff - A vulnerability was determined in LibTIFF up to 4.5.1. Affected by this issue is...↗2025
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