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SUSE Advisory 2025:3961-1 on TIFF Write-What-Where Issue CVE-2025-9900

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Calendar Grey November 6, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
A significant security update for tiff addresses a critical write-what-where vulnerability, protecting SUSE systems.
* bsc#1250413 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-9900

Summary

## This update for tiff fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-9900: Fixed Write-What-Where in libtiff 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: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-2025-3961=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2025-3961=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64) * libtiff-devel-4.0.9-44.97.1 * tiff-debugsource-4.0.9-44.97.1 * tiff-4.0.9-44.97.1 * libtiff5-4.0.9-44.97.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory SuSE remote access important TIFF write-what-where

References

* bsc#1250413

Cross-

* CVE-2025-9900

CVSS scores:

* 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

* CVE-2025-9900 ( NVD ): 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

##

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9900.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250413

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:3961-1
Release Date: 2025-11-06T09:19:59Z
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory SuSE remote access important TIFF write-what-where

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