Microsoft security update for CVE-2024-13978
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products4
- azl3 libtiff 4.6.0-10 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 libtiff 4.6.0-8 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 libtiff 4.6.0-8 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 libtiff 4.6.0-9 on CBL Mariner 2.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 4.6.0-9 |
| — | Security Update | 4.6.0-10 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-13978
- EchelonGraph score
- 2.5 LOW
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
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.
Published by VulDB, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-13978, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).