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SUSE: tiff Important Buffer Overflow Vuln 2025:3957-1 CVE-2025-8851

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
A critical update addressing important vulnerabilities in tiff for SUSE Linux distributions with installation instructions.
* bsc#1248278 * bsc#1250413 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-8851

Summary

## This update for tiff fixes the following issues: Update to 4.7.1: * CVE-2025-8851: Fixed stack-based buffer overflow (bsc#1248278). * CVE-2025-9900: Fixed write-what-where via TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented (bsc#1250413). ## 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-2025-3957=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-3957=1 * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-3957=1 * Basesystem Module 15-SP7 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2025-3957=1 * SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow SuSE important TIFF

References

* bsc#1248278

* bsc#1250413

Cross-

* CVE-2025-8851

* CVE-2025-9900

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-8851 ( SUSE ): 4.8

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

* CVE-2025-8851 ( SUSE ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

* CVE-2025-8851 ( NVD ): 4.8

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:X/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-2025-8851 ( NVD ): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

* CVE-2025-9900 ( SUSE ): 8.5

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

* CVE-2025-9900 ( SUSE ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:3957-1
Release Date: 2025-11-05T15:45:43Z
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow SuSE important TIFF

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