Vulnerability Report

CVE-2024-13978

Title: Libtiff Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2024-13978.

CWE Category CWE-404
Published Date Aug 01, 2025
Modified Date Nov 03, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 2.0 CVSS v4.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.14%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2024-13978: 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.

Impacted Vendors

L
libtiff 1
S
simplesystems 1

Reference Links

http://www.libtiff.org/ https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/2ebfffb0e8836bfb1cd7d85c059cd285c59761a4 https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/649 https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/667 https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.318355 https://vuldb.com/?id.318355 https://vuldb.com/?submit.624562 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00031.html https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/649
CVSS v4.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
2.0
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
N/A
RAW VECTOR 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:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
2.5
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
1.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2024-13978 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL
Complexity HIGH
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String 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:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.