High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 23, 2025· Updated Apr 20, 2026
CVE-2025-9900
CVE-2025-9900
Description
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.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
37- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/26/3nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17651nvd
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- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7504nvd
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9900nvd
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd
- gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/704nvd
- libtiff.gitlab.io/libtiff/releases/v4.7.1.htmlnvd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00031.htmlnvd
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