fkie_cve-2024-13978
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-08-01 22:15
Modified
2025-09-11 16:57
Severity ?
2.5 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
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.
References
cna@vuldb.comhttp://www.libtiff.org/Product
cna@vuldb.comhttps://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/2ebfffb0e8836bfb1cd7d85c059cd285c59761a4Patch
cna@vuldb.comhttps://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/649Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cna@vuldb.comhttps://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/667Product
cna@vuldb.comhttps://vuldb.com/?ctiid.318355Permissions Required, VDB Entry
cna@vuldb.comhttps://vuldb.com/?id.318355Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cna@vuldb.comhttps://vuldb.com/?submit.624562Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/649Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
libtiff libtiff *


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