CVE-2022-41727: Denial of service via crafted TIFF image in golang.org/x/image/tiff

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-02-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-770

Description

An attacker can craft a malformed TIFF image which will consume a significant amount of memory when passed to DecodeConfig. This could lead to a denial of service.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 37, 38
golang.org/x/image/webp: before 0.5.0 — fixed in 0.5.0
golang.org/x/image/tiff: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: golang.org/x/image/webp 0.5.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://go.dev/cl/468195
https://go.dev/issue/58003
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/ag-FiyjlD5o
https://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-2023-1572
https://go.dev/cl/468195
https://go.dev/issue/58003
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/ag-FiyjlD5o
https://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/

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