CVE-2024-13978
LibTIFF fax2ps tiff2pdf.c t2p_read_tiff_init null pointer dereference
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 2.0 Low
- Published
- Aug 1, 2025
- Updated
- Nov 3, 2025
- Reserved
- Jul 30, 2025
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 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 | VulDB |
| 3.1 | 2.5 Low | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:X/RL:O/RC:C | VulDB |
| 3.0 | 2.5 Low | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:X/RL:O/RC:C | VulDB |
| 2.0 | 1.0 Low | AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C | VulDB |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
LibTIFFn/a |
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References
- VDB-318355 | LibTIFF fax2ps tiff2pdf.c t2p_read_tiff_init null pointer dereferencevdb-entrytechnical-description
- VDB-318355 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)signaturepermissions-required
- Submit #624562 | LibTIFF v4.7.0 NULL Pointer Dereferencethird-party-advisory
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/649issue-tracking
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/667patch
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/2ebfffb0e8836bfb1cd7d85c059cd285c59761a4patch
- http://www.libtiff.org/product
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00031.html
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