CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-9900

Write-what-where Condition

Published: Sep 23, 2025 | Modified: Oct 30, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
8.8 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
HIGH

A flaw was found in Libtiff. This vulnerability is a write-what-where condition, triggered when the library processes a specially crafted TIFF image file.

By providing an abnormally large image height value in the files metadata, an attacker can trick the library into writing attacker-controlled color data to an arbitrary memory location. This memory corruption can be exploited to cause a denial of service (application crash) or to achieve arbitrary code execution with the permissions of the user.

Weakness

Any condition where the attacker has the ability to write an arbitrary value to an arbitrary location, often as the result of a buffer overflow.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 RedHat libtiff-0:4.6.0-6.el10_0.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support RedHat compat-libtiff3-0:3.9.4-12.el7_9.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat compat-libtiff3-0:3.9.4-14.el8_10 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat libtiff-0:4.0.9-35.el8_10 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support RedHat compat-libtiff3-0:3.9.4-13.el8_2.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support RedHat compat-libtiff3-0:3.9.4-13.el8_4.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On RedHat compat-libtiff3-0:3.9.4-13.el8_4.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support RedHat compat-libtiff3-0:3.9.4-13.el8_6.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service RedHat compat-libtiff3-0:3.9.4-13.el8_6.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions RedHat compat-libtiff3-0:3.9.4-13.el8_6.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service RedHat compat-libtiff3-0:3.9.4-13.el8_8.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions RedHat compat-libtiff3-0:3.9.4-13.el8_8.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat libtiff-0:4.4.0-13.el9_6.2 *
Tiff Ubuntu devel *
Tiff Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Tiff Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Tiff Ubuntu esm-infra/focal *
Tiff Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Tiff Ubuntu jammy *
Tiff Ubuntu noble *
Tiff Ubuntu plucky *
Tiff Ubuntu questing *

Potential Mitigations

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