diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libtiff/tiff/CVE-2025-8961.patch b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libtiff/tiff/CVE-2025-8961.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..05b11a866e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libtiff/tiff/CVE-2025-8961.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+From 0ac97aa7a5bffddd88f7cdbe517264e9db3f5bd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Lee Howard <faxguy@howardsilvan.com>
+Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 21:42:35 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] tiffcrop: fix double-free and memory leak exposed by issue
+ #721
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/0ac97aa7a5bffddd88f7cdbe517264e9db3f5bd5]
+CVE: CVE-2025-8961
+Signed-off-by: Vijay Anusuri <vanusuri@mvista.com>
+---
+ tools/tiffcrop.c | 8 +++++++-
+ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/tools/tiffcrop.c b/tools/tiffcrop.c
+index e16bc2d..c7d2553 100644
+--- a/tools/tiffcrop.c
++++ b/tools/tiffcrop.c
+@@ -929,6 +929,7 @@ static int readContigTilesIntoBuffer (TIFF* in, uint8_t* buf,
+ 		      TIFFError("readContigTilesIntoBuffer",
+                                 "Unable to extract row %"PRIu32" from tile %"PRIu32,
+ 				row, TIFFCurrentTile(in));
++		      _TIFFfree(tilebuf);
+ 		      return 1;
+ 		      }
+ 		    break;
+@@ -943,6 +944,7 @@ static int readContigTilesIntoBuffer (TIFF* in, uint8_t* buf,
+ 		        TIFFError("readContigTilesIntoBuffer",
+                                   "Unable to extract row %"PRIu32" from tile %"PRIu32,
+ 				  row, TIFFCurrentTile(in));
++		        _TIFFfree(tilebuf);
+ 		        return 1;
+ 		        }
+ 		      break;
+@@ -957,6 +959,7 @@ static int readContigTilesIntoBuffer (TIFF* in, uint8_t* buf,
+ 		        TIFFError("readContigTilesIntoBuffer",
+                                   "Unable to extract row %"PRIu32" from tile %"PRIu32,
+ 			  	  row, TIFFCurrentTile(in));
++		        _TIFFfree(tilebuf);
+ 		        return 1;
+ 		        }
+ 	            break;
+@@ -969,6 +972,7 @@ static int readContigTilesIntoBuffer (TIFF* in, uint8_t* buf,
+ 		      TIFFError("readContigTilesIntoBuffer",
+                                 "Unable to extract row %"PRIu32" from tile %"PRIu32,
+ 		  	        row, TIFFCurrentTile(in));
++		      _TIFFfree(tilebuf);
+ 		      return 1;
+ 		      }
+ 		    break;
+@@ -983,10 +987,12 @@ static int readContigTilesIntoBuffer (TIFF* in, uint8_t* buf,
+ 		      TIFFError("readContigTilesIntoBuffer",
+                                 "Unable to extract row %"PRIu32" from tile %"PRIu32,
+ 			        row, TIFFCurrentTile(in));
++		      _TIFFfree(tilebuf);
+ 		      return 1;
+ 		      }
+ 		    break;
+             default: TIFFError("readContigTilesIntoBuffer", "Unsupported bit depth %"PRIu16, bps);
++		     _TIFFfree(tilebuf);
+ 		     return 1;
+ 	    }
+           }
+@@ -2535,7 +2541,7 @@ main(int argc, char* argv[])
+     }
+ 
+   /* If we did not use the read buffer as the crop buffer */
+-  if (read_buff)
++  if (read_buff && read_buff != crop_buff)
+     _TIFFfree(read_buff);
+ 
+   if (crop_buff)
+-- 
+2.25.1
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libtiff/tiff_4.3.0.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libtiff/tiff_4.3.0.bb
index 0b4bef4c41..2ee6cdef73 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/libtiff/tiff_4.3.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/libtiff/tiff_4.3.0.bb
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://CVE-2025-8534.patch \
            file://CVE-2025-8851.patch \
            file://CVE-2025-9900.patch \
+           file://CVE-2025-8961.patch \
            "
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "0e46e5acb087ce7d1ac53cf4f56a09b221537fc86dfc5daaad1c2e89e1b37ac8"