Improper Resource Shutdown or Release Affecting libtiff6 package, versions <4.7.1-160000.1.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-LIBTIFF6-14135784
  • published27 Nov 2025
  • disclosed19 Nov 2025

Introduced: 19 Nov 2025

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 libtiff6 to version 4.7.1-160000.1.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff6 package and not the libtiff6 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:16.0.0 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