CVE-2025-8851: LibTIFF tiffcrop tiffcrop.c readSeparateStripsetoBuffer stack-based overflow

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-08-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

A vulnerability was determined in LibTIFF up to 4.5.1. Affected by this issue is the function readSeparateStripsetoBuffer of the file tools/tiffcrop.c of the component tiffcrop. The manipulation leads to stack-based buffer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack. The patch is identified as 8a7a48d7a645992ca83062b3a1873c951661e2b3. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Affected products

libtiff: through 4.5.1

References

http://www.libtiff.org/
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/8a7a48d7a645992ca83062b3a1873c951661e2b3
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.319382
https://vuldb.com/?id.319382
https://vuldb.com/?submit.624604
https://vuldb.com/?submit.624604

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