Skip to content
Fencer Intel
critical 9.8

CVE-2025-61144 json

libtiff up to v4.7.1 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the readSeparateStripsIntoBuffer function.

published 8mo ago modified 3mo ago also EUVD-2025-207645 , JLSEC-2026-485

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 23%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

libtiff up to v4.7.1 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the readSeparateStripsIntoBuffer function.

Patch / fix

  • julia Libtiff_jll 4.7.2+0
  • libtiff libtiff 4.7.1
  • tiff Debian 14 4.7.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-61144

  • tiff Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.13
  • tiff Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 4.5.1+git230720-4ubuntu2.5
  • tiff Ubuntu 25.10 4.7.0-3ubuntu3.1
  • tiff Ubuntu 26.10 4.7.0-3ubuntu4
  • tiff Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 4.7.0-3ubuntu5
  • tiff Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm17
  • tiff Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm20
  • tiff Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.10+esm10

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-61144

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • libtiff hummingbird 1 4.7.1-2.1.hum1
  • libtiff-tools hummingbird 1 4.7.1-2.1.hum1

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:7504

  • tiff SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7, SLE Micro 5.5, SLE Micro 5.4 +2 more 4.0.9-150000.45.63.1
  • tiff SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 4.0.9-44.109.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:1408-1SUSE-SU-2026:1407-1

  • libtiff CBL-Mariner 2.0, Azure Linux 3.0 4.6.0-12

azure linux advisories AZL-78311AZL-78330

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Is CVE-2025-61144 in your dependencies? Fencer shows which of your repositories are affected as soon as an advisory lands, and opens the fix as a pull request.

Check with Fencer

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-61144 updated cvss 5.0

libtiff: libtiff: Denial of Service via buffer overflow

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libtiff Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libtiff, libtiff-tools, compat-libtiff3
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 libtiff, libtiff-tools, mingw-libtiff, compat-libtiff3, mingw32-libtiff, mingw64-libtiff Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 libtiff, libtiff-tools Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 libtiff
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Hardened Images libtiff 4.7.1-2.1.hum1, libtiff-tools 4.7.1-2.1.hum1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:7504

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
8mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 23% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/740 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
OSV 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia Libtiff_jll
<4.7.2+0
4.7.2+0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.