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CVE-2024-13978 – LibTIFF Null Pointer Dereference Vulnerability

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2024-13978 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution
of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may
impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Aug. 01, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added 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.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
    Added CWE CWE-476
    Added CWE CWE-404
    Added Reference http://www.libtiff.org/
    Added Reference https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/2ebfffb0e8836bfb1cd7d85c059cd285c59761a4
    Added Reference https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/649
    Added Reference https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/667
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.318355
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?id.318355
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?submit.624562
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