Out-of-Bounds Affecting tiff package, versions <4.7.0-r6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-TIFF-12656493
  • published13 Sept 2025
  • disclosed11 Aug 2025

Introduced: 11 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-8851  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard tiff to version 4.7.0-r6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tiff package and not the tiff package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Base Scores

version 3.1