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.
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Affected products
43- osv-coords41 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/compat-libtiff3pkg:rpm/almalinux/libtiffpkg:rpm/almalinux/libtiff-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/libtiff-toolspkg:rpm/almalinux/mingw32-libtiffpkg:rpm/almalinux/mingw32-libtiff-staticpkg:rpm/almalinux/mingw64-libtiffpkg:rpm/almalinux/mingw64-libtiff-staticpkg:rpm/opensuse/tiff&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/tiff&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/tiff&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/tiff-man&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2016.0pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20applications%2016.0pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20LTSS%20Extended%20Security%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.0pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.1pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.2pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%20LTS%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/tiff&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%20LTS%204.3
< 3.9.4-14.el8_10+ 40 more
- (no CPE)range: < 3.9.4-14.el8_10
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.0-13.el9_6.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.0-13.el9_6.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.0-13.el9_6.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-3.el8_10
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-3.el8_10
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-3.el8_10
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-3.el8_10
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.1-150600.3.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.1-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.1-2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.1-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.1-150600.3.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.1-150600.3.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.1-150600.3.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.1-150600.3.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-44.97.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.1-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.1-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-44.97.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.1-slfo.1.1_1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.1-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.0.9-150000.45.60.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
38- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/26/3nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17651nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17675nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17710nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17738nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17739nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17740nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19113nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19156nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19276nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19906nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19947nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20956nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20998nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21060nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21061nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21062nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21407nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21506nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21507nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21508nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21994nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23078nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23079nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23080nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0001nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0076nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0077nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0078nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3461nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3462nvd
- 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
- gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/732nvd
- libtiff.gitlab.io/libtiff/releases/v4.7.1.htmlnvd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00031.htmlnvd
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