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openSUSE: tiff Important Security Patch for Heap Issues & Overflows

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Calendar Grey August 12, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important revision for openSUSE tackling significant TIFF vulnerabilities along with remedies for buffer overflow and heap mismanagement.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for tiff fixes the following issues:

* Updated TIFFMergeFieldInfo() with read_count=write_count=0 for FIELD_IGNORE

(bsc#1243503)

* CVE-2025-8176: Fixed heap use-after-free in tools/tiffmedian.c (bsc#1247108)

* CVE-2025-8177: Fixed possible buffer overflow in tools/thumbnail.c:setrow()

when processing malformed TIFF files (bsc#1247106)

* Add -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 to fix FTBFS with cmake4

* Add %check section

* Remove Group: declarations, no longer used

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important OpenSUSE TIFF use-after-free

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-2770=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-2770=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-2770=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2025-2770=1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP6-2025-2770=1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP7-2025-2770=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (x86_64)

* libtiff6-32bit-debuginfo-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* libtiff-devel-32bit-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* libtiff6-32bit-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* libtiff6-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* tiff-debuginfo-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* libtiff-devel-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* libtiff6-debuginfo-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* tiff-debugsource-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* tiff-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (noarch)

* tiff-docs-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* libtiff-devel-docs-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64_ilp32)

* libtiff-devel-64bit-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* libtiff6-64bit-debuginfo-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* libtiff6-64bit-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* libtiff6-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* tiff-debuginfo-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* libtiff-devel-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* libtiff6-debuginfo-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* tiff-debugsource-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (x86_64)

* libtiff6-32bit-debuginfo-4.7.0-150600.3.13.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1243503

* bsc#1247106

* bsc#1247108

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8176.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8177.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243503

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1247106

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1247108

Severity
important
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02770-1
Release Date: 2025-08-12T13:50:41Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 * Basesystem Module 15-SP7 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 * SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6 * SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP7

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important OpenSUSE TIFF use-after-free

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