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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2023-29408 json

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

published 2023-08-02 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-x92r-3vfx-4cv3 , GO-2023-1989 , EUVD-2023-2378

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 60%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go golang.org/x/image 0.10.0
  • golang.org/x/image golang.org/x/image/tiff 0.10.0
  • golang-golang-x-image Debian 14, Debian 13 0.11.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-29408

  • keybase-client Package Hub 15 SP6, Package Hub 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.6 +1 more 6.2.8-bp156.2.3.1
  • keybase-client openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.2.2-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:0194-2openSUSE-SU-2024:13103-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-29408 updated cvss 6.5

golang.org/x/image/tiff: TIFF decoder does not place a limit on the size of compressed tile data

  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 acm-cluster-templates-operator-container
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 60% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go golang.org/x/image
<0.10.0
0.10.0

Affected products

  • golang.org/x/image golang.org/x/image/tiff

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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