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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2025-9165 Detail

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  VulDB
CVSS-BT 4.8 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.libtiff.org/ VulDB
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FWhmkzksH8-qU0ZM6seBzGNB3aPnX3G8/view?usp=sharing VulDB
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/ed141286a37f6e5ddafb5069347ff5d587e7a4e0 VulDB
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/728 VulDB
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/728#note_2709263214 CVE
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/747 VulDB
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.320543 VulDB
https://vuldb.com/?id.320543 VulDB
https://vuldb.com/?submit.630506 VulDB
https://vuldb.com/?submit.630507 VulDB

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release VulDB  
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime VulDB  

Change History

2 change records found show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-9165
NVD Published Date:
08/19/2025
NVD Last Modified:
08/26/2025
Source:
VulDB