CVE-2024-13978Improper Resource Shutdown or Release in Libtiff

Severity
2.0LOWNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 85.60%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 1
Latest updateAug 12

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 issu

CVSS vector

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

Affected Packages2 packages

NVDlibtiff/libtiff4.7.0
CVEListV5libtiff/libtiff8 versions+7

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-p48p-6mxj-w7jx: A vulnerability was found in LibTIFF up to 42025-08-02
CVEList
LibTIFF fax2ps tiff2pdf.c t2p_read_tiff_init null pointer dereference2025-08-01
OSV
CVE-2024-13978: A vulnerability was found in LibTIFF up to 42025-08-01

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Microsoft
LibTIFF fax2ps tiff2pdf.c t2p_read_tiff_init null pointer dereference2025-08-12
Red Hat
libtiff: LibTIFF Null Pointer Dereference2025-08-01
Debian
CVE-2024-13978: tiff - A vulnerability was found in LibTIFF up to 4.7.0. It has been declared as proble...2024