🛡️ CVE-2025-8851 on Ubuntu — gdal

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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Description

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. The patch is identified as 8a7a48d7a645992ca83062b3a1873c951661e2b3. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-8851 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package gdal. The fix is available in version 4.5.1+git230720-4ubuntu2.3; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability low.

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-8851 is classified as CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Buffer Bounds. A read or write is performed without confirming it stays inside the allocated buffer, corrupting adjacent memory.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-8851 is recorded against 5 packages.

  • gdal
  • neuron
  • qtwebengine-opensource-src
  • texmaker
  • tiff (fixed in 4.5.1+git230720-4ubuntu2.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 11 August 2025 and last revised on 29 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
gitlab.com (Report)
www.libtiff.org (Report)
gitlab.com (Report)
vuldb.com (Report)
vuldb.com (Report)
vuldb.com (Report)
ubuntu.com (Advisory)

CVE-2025-8851 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-08-11
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-05-29
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
gdal — —
neuron — —
qtwebengine-opensource-src — —
texmaker — —
tiff — 4.5.1+git230720-4ubuntu2.3

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