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CVE-2026-33809 (GCVE-0-2026-33809)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-25 18:24 – Updated: 2026-04-06 21:12
VLAI
Title
OOM from malicious IFD offset in golang.org/x/image/tiff
Summary
A maliciously crafted TIFF file can cause image decoding to attempt to allocate up 4GiB of memory, causing either excessive resource consumption or an out-of-memory error.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-03-25 20:05 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
golang.org/x/image golang.org/x/image/tiff Affected: 0 , < 0.38.0 (semver)
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Credits
Andy Gill, ZephrSec Ltd
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