The TIFF decoder does not place a limit on the size of PackBits-compressed 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.

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Fri, 29 May 2026 22:45:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-400

Fri, 29 May 2026 20:15:00 +0000

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Description The TIFF decoder does not place a limit on the size of PackBits-compressed 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.
Title Excessive resource consumption in PackBits decompression in golang.org/x/image/tiff
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Go

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-29T19:35:33.539Z

Reserved: 2026-05-15T17:35:00.813Z

Link: CVE-2026-46599

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-29T20:16:28.280

Modified: 2026-05-29T20:16:28.280

Link: CVE-2026-46599

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Updated: 2026-05-29T22:30:09Z

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