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A flaw has been found in LibTIFF 4.7.0. This affects the...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Aug 19, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 26, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

A flaw has been found in LibTIFF 4.7.0. This affects the function _TIFFmallocExt/_TIFFCheckRealloc/TIFFHashSetNew/InitCCITTFax3 of the file tools/tiffcmp.c of the component tiffcmp. Executing manipulation can lead to memory leak. The attack is restricted to local execution. The exploit has been published and may be used. This patch is called ed141286a37f6e5ddafb5069347ff5d587e7a4e0. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 19, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 19, 2025
Last updated Aug 26, 2025

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

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Weaknesses

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2025-9165

GHSA ID

GHSA-64vg-6m9q-6vr3

Source code

No known source code

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