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CVE-2024-13978

Published: Aug 1, 2025

Modified: Nov 3, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

2.5

LOW

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

LibTIFF

affected
4.0
affected
4.1
affected
4.2
affected
4.3
affected
4.4

+3 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-476
CWE-404

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

References

VDB-318355 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)
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