Improper Resource Shutdown or Release Affecting tiff package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Debian security rating.

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-TIFF-11382598
  • published3 Aug 2025
  • disclosed1 Aug 2025

Introduced: 1 Aug 2025

NewCVE-2024-13978  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-404  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:unstable tiff.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tiff package and not the tiff package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Base Scores

version 3.1