CVE-2024-13978

LOW

Libtiff < 4.7.0 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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 (8)

Core 8
Core References
Product product
http://www.libtiff.org/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry technical-description
https://vuldb.com/?id.318355
Permissions Required, VDB Entry signature permissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.318355
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry third-party-advisory
https://vuldb.com/?submit.624562
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory issue-tracking
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/649

Scores

CVSS v3 2.5
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 16.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-476 CWE-404
Status published
Products (1)
libtiff/libtiff < 4.7.0
Published Aug 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026