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SUSE Linux Enterprise Important TIFF Buffer Overflow CVE-2025-8176 Advisory

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Calendar Grey August 12, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
Protect your SUSE systems from TIFF vulnerabilities like buffer overflow and DoS attacks. Regular updates, security patches, and monitoring are essential
* bsc#1243503 * bsc#1247106 * bsc#1247108 Cross-References:

Summary

## 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 ## 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

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Topics Covered

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

References

* bsc#1243503

* bsc#1247106

* bsc#1247108

Cross-

* CVE-2025-8176

* CVE-2025-8177

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-8176 ( SUSE ): 8.4

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-8176 ( SUSE ): 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

* CVE-2025-8176 ( NVD ): 1.9

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

* CVE-2025-8176 ( NVD ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

* CVE-2025-8177 ( SUSE ): 4.8

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-8177 ( SUSE ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

* CVE-2025-8177 ( NVD ): 4.8

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02770-1
Release Date: 2025-08-12T13:50:41Z
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

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

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