CVE-2025-8177

Publication date 26 July 2025

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

A vulnerability was found in LibTIFF up to 4.7.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the function setrow of the file tools/thumbnail.c. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. An attack has to be approached locally. The patch is named e8c9d6c616b19438695fd829e58ae4fde5bfbc22. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Only a crash in a command-line tool

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm18
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm15

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Notes

sbeattie

texmaker added an embedded copy of libtiff in bionic

mdeslaur

This is only a crash in the thumbnail tool, which has been removed starting with the (4.0.6-3) package. Setting priority to low.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
tiff	Upstream: https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/737 Upstream: e8c9d6c

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7707-1
LibTIFF vulnerabilities
20 August 2025