CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-13978
2.0 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-08-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 2.0 LOW — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 2.5 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.0 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-404, CWE-476
Description
A vulnerability was found in LibTIFF up to 4.7.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function t2p_read_tiff_init of the file tools/tiff2pdf.c of the component fax2ps. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. The attack needs to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The patch is named 2ebfffb0e8836bfb1cd7d85c059cd285c59761a4. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
Affected configurations
• libtiff libtiff (<= 4.7.0)
Related
References
- http://www.libtiff.org/ Product
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/2ebfffb0e8836bfb1cd7d85c059cd285c59761a4 Patch
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/649 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/667 Product
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.318355 Permissions Required, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?id.318355 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.624562 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00031.html lists.debian.org
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/649 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory