Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2025-2991
Advisory Released Date: 2025-09-16
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-09-16
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
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. (CVE-2025-8851)
Affected Packages:
libtiff
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libtiff or yum update --advisory ALAS2-2025-2991 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.24.aarch64
libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.24.aarch64
libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.24.aarch64
libtiff-tools-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.24.aarch64
libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.24.aarch64
i686:
libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.24.i686
libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.24.i686
libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.24.i686
libtiff-tools-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.24.i686
libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.24.i686
src:
libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.24.src
x86_64:
libtiff-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.24.x86_64
libtiff-devel-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.24.x86_64
libtiff-static-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.24.x86_64
libtiff-tools-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.24.x86_64
libtiff-debuginfo-4.0.3-35.amzn2.0.24.x86_64