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.

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-5869edf3de advisory.

    - fix CVE-2025-8534: null pointer dereference in tiff2ps (rhbz#2386494)


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    - fix CVE-2024-13978: null pointer dereference in tiff2pdf (rhbz#2386201)


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-c612cbc58f advisory.

    Automatic update for libtiff-4.7.0-8.fc44.

    ##### **Changelog**

    ```
    * Mon Aug 25 2025 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink@redhat.com> - 4.7.0-8
    - fix  CVE-2025-9165: memory leak in tiffcmp (rhbz#2389608)
    * Tue Aug 12 2025 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink@redhat.com> - 4.7.0-7
    - fix CVE-2024-13978: null pointer dereference in tiff2pdf (rhbz#2386201)
    - fix CVE-2025-8534: null pointer dereference in tiff2ps (rhbz#2386494)

    ```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-ebff4d54bf advisory.

    Automatic update for libtiff-4.7.0-8.fc43.

    ##### **Changelog**

    ```
    * Mon Aug 25 2025 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink@redhat.com> - 4.7.0-8
    - fix  CVE-2025-9165: memory leak in tiffcmp (rhbz#2389608)
    * Tue Aug 12 2025 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink@redhat.com> - 4.7.0-7
    - fix CVE-2024-13978: null pointer dereference in tiff2pdf (rhbz#2386201)
    - fix CVE-2025-8534: null pointer dereference in tiff2ps (rhbz#2386494)

    ```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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.
    (CVE-2024-13978)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-a78662be2c advisory.

    - fixes CVE-2025-8534: null pointer dereference in tiff2p
    - fixes CVE-2024-13978: null pointer dereference in tiff2pdf


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
258026	Fedora 41 : libtiff (2025-5869edf3de)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
254437	Fedora 44 : libtiff (2025-c612cbc58f)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
254436	Fedora 43 : libtiff (2025-ebff4d54bf)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
252700	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-13978	Nessus	Misc.	low
249974	Fedora 42 : libtiff (2025-a78662be2c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low

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