CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-9165

1.1 LOW Published 2025-08-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-08-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
1.1 LOW — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
2.5 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
1.0 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-401, CWE-404

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. This attack is characterized by high complexity. It is indicated that the exploitability is difficult. The exploit has been published and may be used. There is ongoing doubt regarding the real existence of this vulnerability. This patch is called ed141286a37f6e5ddafb5069347ff5d587e7a4e0. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue. A researcher disputes the security impact of this issue, because "this is a memory leak on a command line tool that is about to exit anyway". In the reply the project maintainer declares this issue as "a simple 'bug' when leaving the command line tool and (...) not a security issue at all".

Affected configurations

• libtiff libtiff 4.7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
  • CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release weakness

References