CVE-2025-9165 – LibTIFF Memory Leak Vulnerability

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-9165 vulnerability over time.

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impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Aug. 19, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description A flaw has been found in LibTIFF 4.7.0. This affects the function _TIFFmallocExt/_TIFFCheckRealloc/TIFFHashSetNew/InitCCITTFax3 of the file tools/tiffcmp.c of the component tiffcmp. Executing manipulation can lead to memory leak. The attack is restricted to local execution. The exploit has been published and may be used. This patch is called ed141286a37f6e5ddafb5069347ff5d587e7a4e0. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
    Added CWE CWE-404
    Added CWE CWE-401
    Added Reference http://www.libtiff.org/
    Added Reference https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FWhmkzksH8-qU0ZM6seBzGNB3aPnX3G8/view?usp=sharing
    Added Reference https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/ed141286a37f6e5ddafb5069347ff5d587e7a4e0
    Added Reference https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/728
    Added Reference https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/747
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.320543
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?id.320543
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?submit.630506
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?submit.630507
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