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USN-7707-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities

It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain memory operations when using tiffmedian tool. An attacker could trick a user into processing a specially crafted tiff image file and potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2025-8176) It was discovered that LibTIFF did not properly perform bounds checking in certain operations when using thumbnail tool. An attacker could trick a user into processing a specially crafted tiff image file and potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2025-8177) It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain memory operations when using tiff2ps tool. An attacker could trick a user into processing a specially crafted tiff image file and potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2025-8534) It was discovered that LibTIFF did not properly perform bounds checking in certain operations when using tiffcrop tool. An attacker could trick a user into processing a specially crafted tiff image file and potentially use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2025-8851)

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