CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-13978

Low
Published: —Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A vulnerability was found in LibTIFF up to 4.7.0. The function t2p_read_tiff_init of the file tools/tiff2pdf.c of the fax2ps component is affected. The manipulation leads to a null pointer dereference, and the attack requires local access.

Risk Assessment

A local attacker could crash the application via a null pointer dereference, causing a denial of service.

Recommendation

Update the LibTIFF library to a version containing the fix for this flaw.

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Original NVD description (English 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

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS