An update of the libtiff package has been released.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:19113 advisory.

    The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)     files.

    Security Fix(es):

    * libtiff: LibTIFF Use-After-Free Vulnerability (CVE-2025-8176)

    * libtiff: Libtiff Write-What-Where (CVE-2025-9900)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2025-19113 advisory.

    - fix CVE-2025-8176 off-by-one error skipping first line in tiffdither       and tiffmedian
    - fix CVE-2025-9900 buffer underflow in TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented

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

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

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-7d08872494 advisory.

    - fix CVE-2025-8176: use after free in tiffmedian (rhbz#2383821)
    - fix CVE-2025-8177: buffer oveflow in thumbnail setrow when processing malformed TIFF (rhbz#2383827)


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

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02771-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-8176: Fixed heap use-after-free in tools/tiffmedian.c (bsc#1247108)
    - CVE-2025-8177: Fixed possible buffer overflow in tools/thumbnail.c:setrow()       when processing malformed TIFF files (bsc#1247106)

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

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

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-1153 advisory.

    A vulnerability was found in LibTIFF up to 4.7.0. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability     affects the function get_histogram of the file tools/tiffmedian.c. The manipulation leads to use after     free. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be     used. The patch is identified as fe10872e53efba9cc36c66ac4ab3b41a839d5172. It is recommended to apply a     patch to fix this issue. (CVE-2025-8176)

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 libtiff installed on the remote host is prior to 4.0.3-35. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2965 advisory.

    A vulnerability was found in LibTIFF up to 4.7.0. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability     affects the function get_histogram of the file tools/tiffmedian.c. The manipulation leads to use after     free. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be     used. The patch is identified as fe10872e53efba9cc36c66ac4ab3b41a839d5172. It is recommended to apply a     patch to fix this issue. (CVE-2025-8176)

    A vulnerability was found in LibTIFF up to 4.7.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the     function setrow of the file tools/thumbnail.c. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. An attack has to     be approached locally. The patch is named e8c9d6c616b19438695fd829e58ae4fde5bfbc22. It is recommended to     apply a patch to fix this issue. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by     the maintainer. (CVE-2025-8177)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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 found in LibTIFF up to 4.7.0. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability     affects the function get_histogram of the file tools/tiffmedian.c. The manipulation leads to use after     free. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be     used. The patch is identified as fe10872e53efba9cc36c66ac4ab3b41a839d5172. It is recommended to apply a     patch to fix this issue. (CVE-2025-8176)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02770-1 advisory.

    - Updated TIFFMergeFieldInfo() with read_count=write_count=0 for FIELD_IGNORE (bsc#1243503)
    - CVE-2025-8176: Fixed heap use-after-free in tools/tiffmedian.c (bsc#1247108)
    - CVE-2025-8177: Fixed possible buffer overflow in tools/thumbnail.c:setrow()       when processing malformed TIFF files (bsc#1247106)
    - Add -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 to fix FTBFS with cmake4
    - Add %check section
    - Remove Group: declarations, no longer used

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

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02815-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-8176: Fixed heap use-after-free in tools/tiffmedian.c (bsc#1247108)
    - CVE-2025-8177: Fixed possible buffer overflow in tools/thumbnail.c:setrow()       when processing malformed TIFF files (bsc#1247106)

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

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

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2025:19113 advisory.

    * libtiff: LibTIFF Use-After-Free Vulnerability (CVE-2025-8176)
      * libtiff: Libtiff Write-What-Where (CVE-2025-9900)

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

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

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	Published	Updated	Severity
252273	Photon OS 4.0: Libtiff PHSA-2025-4.0-0848	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	8/19/2025	9/16/2025	medium
271847	RHEL 9 : libtiff (RHSA-2025:19113)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	10/28/2025	10/28/2025	medium
271863	Oracle Linux 9 : libtiff (ELSA-2025-19113)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	10/28/2025	10/28/2025	medium
243211	Fedora 42 : libtiff (2025-7d08872494)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	7/30/2025	7/30/2025	medium
249224	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2025:02771-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	8/13/2025	8/13/2025	medium
261746	Amazon Linux 2023 : libtiff, libtiff-devel, libtiff-static (ALAS2023-2025-1153)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	9/8/2025	9/8/2025	medium
252272	Photon OS 5.0: Libtiff PHSA-2025-5.0-0579	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	8/19/2025	9/16/2025	medium
252295	Amazon Linux 2 : libtiff (ALAS-2025-2965)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	8/19/2025	8/19/2025	medium
247174	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-8176	Nessus	Misc.	8/10/2025	10/28/2025	medium
249220	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2025:02770-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	8/13/2025	8/13/2025	medium
250307	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : tiff (SUSE-SU-2025:02815-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	8/16/2025	8/16/2025	medium
271851	AlmaLinux 9 : libtiff (ALSA-2025:19113)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	10/28/2025	10/28/2025	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	8/22/2025	8/22/2025	medium

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