CVE-2023-29408

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

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: August 2, 2023 at 07:52 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 05:49 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsFedoraImageTiff

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.9%
SSVC
No known exploit

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 0.10.0
Affected range stops below 0.10.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 0.10.0
Affected range stops below 0.10.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-770

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