CVE-2023-29408: vulnerability in golang.org/x/image/tiff
Excessive resource consumption in golang.org/x/image/tiff
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.9%
exploitation probability
0.9%top 41% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The TIFF decoder does not place a limit on the size of compressed tile data. A maliciously-crafted image can exploit this to cause a small image (both in terms of pixel width/height, and encoded size) to make the decoder decode large amounts of compressed data, consuming excessive memory and CPU.
Affected products
golang.org/x/image · golang.org/x/image/tiffRelated CVEs — golang.org/x/image/tiff
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2023-29407—Excessive CPU consumption when decoding 0-height images in golang.org/x/image/tiffEPSS 0.9%CVE-2024-24792HIGHPanic when parsing invalid palette-color images in golang.org/x/imageEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-46599HIGHExcessive resource consumption in PackBits decompression in golang.org/x/image/tiffEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-46604HIGHPanic decoding image with out-of-bounds strip offset in x/image/tiff in golang.org/x/imageEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-46602HIGHLack of limit on tile sizes in x/image/tiff in golang.org/x/imageEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-33809MEDIUMOOM from malicious IFD offset in golang.org/x/image/tiffEPSS 0.4%
References
https://go.dev/cl/514897https://go.dev/issue/61582https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KO54NBDUJXKAZNGCFOEYL2LKK2RQP6K6/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XWH6Q7NVM4MV3GWFEU4PA67AWZHVFJQ2/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XZTEP6JYILRBNDTNWTEQ5D4QUUVQBESK/https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1989https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230831-0009/