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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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CVE-2024-13978 Detail

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.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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CNA:  VulDB
CVSS-B 2.0 LOW
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

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.libtiff.org/ VulDB Product 
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/2ebfffb0e8836bfb1cd7d85c059cd285c59761a4 VulDB Patch 
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/649 CISA-ADP, VulDB Exploit  Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/667 VulDB Product 
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.318355 VulDB Permissions Required  VDB Entry 
https://vuldb.com/?id.318355 VulDB Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://vuldb.com/?submit.624562 VulDB Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference VulDB  
CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release VulDB  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-13978
NVD Published Date:
08/01/2025
NVD Last Modified:
09/11/2025
Source:
VulDB