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CVE-2023-29408: Excessive resource consumption in golang.org/x/image/tiff
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2023-08-02 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-770
Description
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
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 37, 38
- golang.org/x/image/webp: before 0.10.0 — fixed in 0.10.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: golang.org/x/image/webp 0.10.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://go.dev/cl/514897
- https://go.dev/issue/61582
- 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-2023-1989
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230831-0009/
- https://go.dev/cl/514897
- https://go.dev/issue/61582
- 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/
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