Name | CVE-2025-9165 |
Description | A flaw has been found in LibTIFF 4.7.0. This affects the function _TIFFmallocExt/_TIFFCheckRealloc/TIFFHashSetNew/InitCCITTFax3 of the file tools/tiffcmp.c of the component tiffcmp. Executing manipulation can lead to memory leak. The attack is restricted to local execution. The exploit has been published and may be used. This patch is called ed141286a37f6e5ddafb5069347ff5d587e7a4e0. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Debian Bugs | 1111878 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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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 | 4.7.0-4 | fixed |
| sid | 4.7.0-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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tiff | source | (unstable) | 4.7.0-4 | unimportant | | 1111878 |
Notes
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/728
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/747
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/ed141286a37f6e5ddafb5069347ff5d587e7a4e0
Memory leak in CLI tool, no security impact