NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libtiff package, versions [4.7.0-rc1,]
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- published31 Aug 2025
- disclosed1 Aug 2025
- creditarthurx
Introduced: 1 Aug 2025
CVE-2024-13978 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference in t2p_read_tiff_init when calculating TIFFTAGTILEWIDTH and TIFFTAG_TILELENGTH. An attacker can cause a denial of service by providing crafted input that triggers the vulnerable code path.
Note: This is result of regression that was introduced in 28c38d6