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Vulnerability · Published Aug 11, 2025 · Assigned by VulDB

CVE-2025-8851LibTIFF tiffcrop tiffcrop.c readSeparateStripsetoBuffer stack-based overflow

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity stack buffer overflow in LibTIFF. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 10% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 90.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12tiffno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-8851
Debian:13tiff4.7.0-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-8851
Debian:14tiff4.7.0-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-8851
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSneuronno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-8851
Ubuntu:25.10qtwebengine-opensource-srcno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-8851
Ubuntu:26.10qtwebengine-opensource-srcno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-8851
Ubuntu:25.10texmakerno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-8851
Ubuntu:26.04:LTStexmakerno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-8851
Ubuntu:26.10texmakerno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-8851
Ubuntu:22.04:LTStiff4.3.0-6ubuntu0.11UBUNTU-CVE-2025-8851
Ubuntu:22.04:LTStiff4.3.0-6ubuntu0.11USN-7707-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTStiff4.5.1+git230720-4ubuntu2.3UBUNTU-CVE-2025-8851
Ubuntu:24.04:LTStiff4.5.1+git230720-4ubuntu2.3USN-7707-1

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a LibTIFF 4.5.04.5.1

Weakness: CWE-121, CWE-119 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:X/RL:O/RC:C

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