Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-9900

high Nessus Plugin ID 265888

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

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

- A flaw was found in Libtiff. This vulnerability is a write-what-where condition, triggered when the library processes a specially crafted TIFF image file. By providing an abnormally large image height value in the file's metadata, an attacker can trick the library into writing attacker-controlled color data to an arbitrary memory location. This memory corruption can be exploited to cause a denial of service (application crash) or to achieve arbitrary code execution with the permissions of the user.
(CVE-2025-9900)

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

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 265888

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_9900.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 9/25/2025

Updated: 10/13/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-9900

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-libtiff, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:texmaker, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw32-libtiff, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw64-libtiff-static, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libtiff-tools, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tiff, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:compat-libtiff3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-libtiff-static, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-libtiff, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:compat-libtiff3, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libtiff, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw32-libtiff-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff-tools, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libtiff-static, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff-static, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-libtiff-static, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qtwebengine-opensource-src, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:neuron, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gdal, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw64-libtiff, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libtiff-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libtiff, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-9900

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