CVE-2026-46599

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.06%

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

Published: 5/29/2026Modified: 6/2/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-46599

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.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (4)