Bug 2386059 (CVE-2024-13978) - CVE-2024-13978 libtiff: LibTIFF Null Pointer Dereference
Summary: CVE-2024-13978 libtiff: LibTIFF Null Pointer Dereference
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-13978
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2386200 2386202 2386203 2386205 2386206 2386201 2386204
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-08-01 22:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-08-04 19:06 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-01 22:01:05 UTC 
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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