Improper Resource Shutdown or Release Affecting libtiff package, versions [0,]
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- published2 Sept 2025
- disclosed19 Aug 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 19 Aug 2025
NewCVE-2025-9165 (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 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release in the _TIFFmallocExt(), _TIFFCheckRealloc(), TIFFHashSetNew() and InitCCITTFax3() functions of the tools/tiffcmp.c file. An attacker can cause resource exhaustion by repeatedly triggering the allocation of memory that is not properly released.
Note:
This issue was patched in ed141286a37f6e5ddafb5069347ff5d587e7a4e0 commit. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.