Coverity flags leaks and unchecked returns in tools
Coverity reports leaked buffers and unchecked return values in tiff2pdf, tiff write and tiffgt code.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 18 August 2026 · last reported 18 August 2026
What's going wrong
Coverity reports three defects after recent changes: a buffer not freed on one error path in the PDF converter, a write-side call whose return value is ignored, and a directory read in the viewer whose result is not checked.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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