Source: tiff Version: 4.7.0-3 Severity: important Tags: security upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for tiff. CVE-2024-13978[0]: | 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. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-13978 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13978 [1] https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/649 [2] https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/650 [3] https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/667 [4] https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/7be20ccaab97455f192de0ac561ceda7cd9e12d1 [5] https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/commit/2ebfffb0e8836bfb1cd7d85c059cd285c59761a4 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
