CVE-2024-13978

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.

References

https://vuldb.com/?submit.624562

https://vuldb.com/?id.318355

https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.318355

https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/667

https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/649

https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/2ebfffb0e8836bfb1cd7d85c059cd285c59761a4

http://www.libtiff.org/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-08-01

Updated: 2025-08-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 2.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Severity: Low

CVSS v4

Base Score: 2

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

Severity: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00013