| Name | CVE-2025-8534 |
| Description | A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in libtiff 4.6.0. This vulnerability affects the function PS_Lvl2page of the file tools/tiff2ps.c of the component tiff2ps. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is 6ba36f159fd396ad11bf6b7874554197736ecc8b. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. One of the maintainers explains, that "[t]his error only occurs if DEFER_STRILE_LOAD (defer-strile-load:BOOL=ON) or TIFFOpen( .. "rD") option is used." |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| tiff (PTS) | bullseye | 4.2.0-1+deb11u5 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 4.2.0-1+deb11u6 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 4.5.0-6+deb12u2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security) | 4.5.0-6+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 4.7.0-3 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid | 4.7.0-5 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| tiff | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/718
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/746
Crash in CLI tool, no security impact