Use After Free Affecting libtiff package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBTIFF-12008938
  • published19 Aug 2025
  • disclosed26 Jul 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-8176  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the get_histogram function when processing a specially crafted TIFF file. An attacker can cause memory corruption, causing a denial of service and potentially impacting confidentiality and integrity, by supplying a malicious file to be processed locally.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1