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Medium ALAS2-2025-2986 1 CVE

Moderate: compat-libtiff3 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Aug 26, 2025 · Updated Sep 4, 2025

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-8851: A vulnerability was determined in LibTIFF up to 4.5.1. Affected by this issue is the function readSeparateStripsetoBuffer of the file tools/tiffcrop.c of the component tiffcrop. The manipulation leads to stack-based buffer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 compat-libtiff3 0:3.9.4-12.amzn2.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2 compat-libtiff3-debuginfo 0:3.9.4-12.amzn2.0.5

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.3
    CVE-2025-8851

    LibTIFF tiffcrop tiffcrop.c readSeparateStripsetoBuffer stack-based overflow

    A vulnerability was determined in LibTIFF up to 4.5.1. Affected by this issue is the function readSeparateStripsetoBuffer of the file tools/tiffcrop.c of the component tiffcrop. The manipulation leads to stack-based buffer overflow. Local access is required t…

    tiff tiff qtwebengine-opensource-src libtiff Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Wolfi

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-8851.html