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CVE-2024-13978

A vulnerability was found in LibTIFF up to 4.7.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is

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.

LOW · CVSS 2.5 EPSS 0.00141
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  • Public exploit or PoC is available
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-404Improper Resource Shutdown or Release
CWE-476NULL Pointer Dereference
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Affected Products & Versions

1
libtiff<= 4.7.0
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Public Exploits & PoCs

1
pocgitlab.com · issues/649gitlab.com
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Scoring & Timeline

2.5
LOW · CVSS v3.1 · cna@vuldb.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD01 Aug 2025 · 10:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC triage · cisa-vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
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Vendor Advisories

8
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2025:20049-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2025:21009-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2025:21032-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2025:21037-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2025:20971-1
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References & Sources

7
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://www.libtiff.org/Product
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/2ebfffb0e8836bfb1cd7d85c059cd285c59761a4Patch
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/667Product
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.318355Permissions RequiredVDB Entry
https://vuldb.com/?id.318355Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://vuldb.com/?submit.624562Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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