CVE-2026-33812 (GCVE-0-2026-33812)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-21 19:21 – Updated: 2026-04-21 20:43
VLAI?
Title
Excessive memory allocation when decoding malicious SFNT in golang.org/x/image
Summary
Parsing a malicious font file can cause excessive memory allocation.
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-789 - Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
golang.org/x/image golang.org/x/image/font/sfnt Affected: 0 , < 0.39.0 (semver)
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Credits
Andy Gill, ZephrSec Ltd
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