CVE-2024-7006: Libtiff

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A null pointer dereference flaw was found in Libtiff via `tif_dirinfo.c`. This issue may allow an attacker to trigger memory allocation failures through certain means, such as restricting the heap space size or injecting faults, causing a segmentation fault. This can cause an application crash, eventually leading to a denial of service.

Affected products

• Libtiff Libtiff: from 3.5.1, up to and including 4.6.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Arm 64: version 9.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian Eus: version 9.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 9.2 only

Published 2024-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.