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CVE-2025-8851 - LibTIFF Stack-Based Buffer Overflow

CVE ID : CVE-2025-8851
Published : Aug. 11, 2025, 2:15 p.m. | 25 minutes ago
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.
Severity: 5.3 | MEDIUM
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