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.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-1164 advisory.

    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. (CVE-2025-8851)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of compat-libtiff3 installed on the remote host is prior to 3.9.4-12. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2986 advisory.

    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. (CVE-2025-8851)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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.
    (CVE-2025-8851)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7707-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain memory operations when using tiffmedian tool.
    An attacker could trick a user into processing a specially crafted tiff image file and potentially use     this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2025-8176)

    It was discovered that LibTIFF did not properly perform bounds checking in certain operations when using     thumbnail tool. An attacker could trick a user into processing a specially crafted tiff image file and     potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and     Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2025-8177)

    It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain memory

    operations when using tiff2ps tool. An attacker could trick a user into processing a specially crafted     tiff image file and potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2025-8534)

    It was discovered that LibTIFF did not properly perform bounds checking

    in certain operations when using tiffcrop tool. An attacker could trick

    a user into processing a specially crafted tiff image file and

    potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2025-8851)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
261751	Amazon Linux 2023 : libtiff, libtiff-devel, libtiff-static (ALAS2023-2025-1164)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
261336	Amazon Linux 2 : compat-libtiff3, --advisory ALAS2-2025-2986 (ALAS-2025-2986)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
259892	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-8851	Nessus	Misc.	medium
253529	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 : LibTIFF vulnerabilities (USN-7707-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium

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