CVE-2024-13978

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13978
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-13978.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-13978
Downstream
Published
2025-08-01T22:15:25Z
Modified
2025-08-04T15:56:25.101062Z
Summary
[none]
Details

A vulnerability was found in LibTIFF up to 4.7.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function t2preadtiff_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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / tiff

Package

Name
tiff
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tiff?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4.*

4.2.0-1
4.2.0-1+deb11u1
4.2.0-1+deb11u2
4.2.0-1+deb11u3
4.2.0-1+deb11u4
4.2.0-1+deb11u5
4.2.0-1+deb11u6
4.3.0-1
4.3.0-2
4.3.0-3
4.3.0-4
4.3.0-5
4.3.0-6
4.3.0-7
4.3.0-8
4.4.0~rc1-1
4.4.0-1
4.4.0-2
4.4.0-3
4.4.0-4
4.4.0-5
4.4.0-6
4.5.0~rc1-1
4.5.0~rc1+git221213-1
4.5.0~rc3+git221213-1
4.5.0-1
4.5.0-2
4.5.0-3
4.5.0-4
4.5.0-5
4.5.0-6
4.5.1~rc3-1
4.5.1-1
4.5.1+git230720-1
4.5.1+git230720-2
4.5.1+git230720-3
4.5.1+git230720-4
4.5.1+git230720-5
4.6.0-1
4.6.0-2
4.7.0-1
4.7.0-2
4.7.0-3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:12 / tiff

Package

Name
tiff
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tiff?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4.*

4.5.0-6
4.5.0-6+deb12u1
4.5.0-6+deb12u2
4.5.1~rc3-1
4.5.1-1
4.5.1+git230720-1
4.5.1+git230720-2
4.5.1+git230720-3
4.5.1+git230720-4
4.5.1+git230720-5
4.6.0-1
4.6.0-2
4.7.0-1
4.7.0-2
4.7.0-3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:13 / tiff

Package

Name
tiff
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tiff?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4.*

4.7.0-3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Git / gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed

Affected versions

v3.*

v3.5.3
v3.5.4
v3.5.5
v3.5.7
v3.6.0
v3.6.0beta2
v3.6.1
v3.7.0
v3.7.0alpha
v3.7.0beta
v3.7.0beta2
v3.7.1
v3.7.2
v3.7.3
v3.7.4
v3.8.0
v3.8.1
v3.8.2

v4.*

v4.0.0
v4.0.0alpha
v4.0.0alpha4
v4.0.0alpha5
v4.0.0alpha6
v4.0.0beta7
v4.0.1
v4.0.10
v4.0.2
v4.0.3
v4.0.4
v4.0.4beta
v4.0.5
v4.0.6
v4.0.7
v4.0.8
v4.0.9
v4.1.0
v4.2.0
v4.3.0
v4.3.0rc1
v4.4.0
v4.4.0rc1
v4.5.0
v4.5.0rc1
v4.5.0rc2
v4.5.0rc3
v4.5.1
v4.5.1rc1
v4.5.1rc2
v4.5.1rc3
v4.6.0
v4.6.0rc1
v4.6.0rc2
v4.7.0
v4.7.0rc1
v4.7.0rc2