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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2025-9165 Detail

Disputed     

Current 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. This attack is characterized by high complexity. It is indicated that the exploitability is difficult. The exploit has been published and may be used. There is ongoing doubt regarding the real existence of this vulnerability. This patch is called ed141286a37f6e5ddafb5069347ff5d587e7a4e0. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue. A researcher disputes the security impact of this issue, because "this is a memory leak on a command line tool that is about to exit anyway". In the reply the project maintainer declares this issue as "a simple 'bug' when leaving the command line tool and (...) not a security issue at all".


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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 2.0 LOW
Vector:  CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/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 Product 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FWhmkzksH8-qU0ZM6seBzGNB3aPnX3G8/view?usp=sharing VulDB Exploit 
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/ed141286a37f6e5ddafb5069347ff5d587e7a4e0 VulDB Patch 
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/728 VulDB Exploit  Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/728#note_2709263214 CVE Exploit  Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/747 VulDB Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.320543 VulDB Permissions Required  VDB Entry 
https://vuldb.com/?id.320543 VulDB Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://vuldb.com/?submit.630506 VulDB Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://vuldb.com/?submit.630507 VulDB Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 

Weakness Enumeration

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

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-9165
NVD Published Date:
08/19/2025
NVD Last Modified:
10/01/2025
Source:
VulDB