CVE-2024-13978

2.5 LOW
Published: August 01, 2025 Modified: November 03, 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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://www.libtiff.org/
Source: cna@vuldb.com
Product
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/649
Source: cna@vuldb.com
Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.318355
Source: cna@vuldb.com
Permissions Required VDB Entry
https://vuldb.com/?id.318355
Source: cna@vuldb.com
Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://vuldb.com/?submit.624562
Source: cna@vuldb.com
Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/649
Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory

9 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
2.5 / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.0%
6th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

libtiff