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SUSE: Advisory for TIFF Moderate Buffer Overflow - SUSE-SU-2025:3989-1

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Calendar Grey November 7, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE releases a moderate advisory for TIFF addressing CVE-2025-8851 with a buffer overflow fix.
* bsc#1248278 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-8851

Summary

## This update for tiff fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-8851: Fixed stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in tools/tiffcrop.c function readSeparateStripsIntoBuffer() by implementing additional error handling (bsc#1248278). ## 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 Extended Security zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2025-3989=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security (x86_64) * tiff-4.0.9-44.106.1 * tiff-debugsource-4.0.9-44.106.1 * libtiff-devel-4.0.9-44.106.1 * libtiff5-debuginfo-4.0.9-44.106.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow SuSE TIFF cve-2025-8851

References

* bsc#1248278

Cross-

* CVE-2025-8851

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

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5

* 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.

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:3989-1
Release Date: 2025-11-07T13:44:30Z
Rating: moderate

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