CVE-2025-8851 (GCVE-0-2025-8851)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-11 13:32 – Updated: 2025-08-12 13:43
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
LibTIFF tiffcrop tiffcrop.c readSeparateStripsetoBuffer stack-based overflow
Summary
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Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-11 17:32 UTC
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
| https://vuldb.com/?id.319382 | vdb-entrytechnical-description |
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| https://vuldb.com/?submit.624604 | third-party-advisory |
| https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/8a7a4… | patch |
| http://www.libtiff.org/ | product |
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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