CVE-2025-8851

Publication date 11 August 2025

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tiff 25.04 plucky
Fixed 4.5.1+git230720-4ubuntu4.1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 4.5.1+git230720-4ubuntu2.3
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.11
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.14+esm1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.10+esm8
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm18
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm15
qtwebengine-opensource-src 25.04 plucky
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
texmaker 25.04 plucky
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
gdal 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation
neuron 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation

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Notes

sbeattie

texmaker added an embedded copy of libtiff in bionic

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.3 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L