CVE-2024-13978
LibTIFF fax2ps tiff2pdf.c t2p_read_tiff_init null pointer dereference
Summary
LibTIFF fax2ps tiff2pdf.c t2p_read_tiff_init null pointer dereference
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2024-13978 tiff
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-13978 tiff Fixed in: 4.2.0-1+deb11u7
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-13978 gdal
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory vuldb.com
- advisory vuldb.com
- patch gitlab.com
- patch gitlab.com
- report gitlab.com
- report vuldb.com
- web libtiff.org
- web lists.debian.org