Improper Resource Shutdown or Release Affecting tiff package, versions <4.7.0-3ubuntu2


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2510-TIFF-15021686
  • published17 Jan 2026
  • disclosed1 Aug 2025

Introduced: 1 Aug 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 Ubuntu:25.10 tiff to version 4.7.0-3ubuntu2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tiff package and not the tiff package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:25.10 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