CVE-2023-29408

Excessive resource consumption in golang.org/x/image/tiff

Published Aug 2, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-2378 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-x92r-3vfx-4cv3 Golang TIFF decoder does not place a limit on the size of compressed tile data
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Go
Published
Updated
Feb 13, 2025, 4:49 PM
Reserved
Apr 5, 2023, 7:36 PM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 2, 2023, 8:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 5:49 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Aug 2, 2023, 12:00 AM