SB2025082621 - Fedora 44 update for libtiff
Published: August 26, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 vulnerabilities.
1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-9165)
CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due memory leak within the _TIFFmallocExt/_TIFFCheckRealloc/TIFFHashSetNew/InitCCITTFax3() function in tools/tiffcmp.c . A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted image to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-13978)
CWE-ID: CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the t2p_read_tiff_init() function in tools/tiff2pdf.c. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted image to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
3) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-8534)
CWE-ID: CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to NULL pointer dereference within the PS_Lvl2page() function in tools/tiff2ps.c. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted image to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.