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Vulnerability record · CVE-2024-13978 · published 1 August 2025

CVE-2024-13978: Libtiff improper resource shutdown vulnerability

Libtiff · Libtiff

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.

2.0 CVSS 4.0 Low EPSS 0.19% · top 92.3% CWE-404 · Improper resource shutdownCWE-476 · NULL pointer dereference
2.0CVSS 4.0 base score, v2 1.0
0.19%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
9References, 2 tagged exploit
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

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.

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/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:

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://www.libtiff.org/ Product
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/2ebfffb0e8836bfb1cd7d85c059cd285c59761a4 Patch
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/649 ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/667 Product
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.318355 Permissions RequiredVDB Entry
https://vuldb.com/?id.318355 Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://vuldb.com/?submit.624562 Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00031.html
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/649 ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2024-13978), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.