Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in golang.org/x/image

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2022-41727 · GHSA-qgc7-mgm3-q253 · GO-2023-1572 · Published 28/02/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-41727 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting golang.org/x/image, image (golang).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.31%, higher than 23.5% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.5.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
golang.org/x/image Go	`< 0.5.0`	`0.5.0`
image golang	`< 0.5.0`	`0.5.0`

Description

An attacker can craft a malformed TIFF image which will consume a significant amount of memory when passed to DecodeConfig. This could lead to a denial of service.

NVD description

An attacker can craft a malformed TIFF image which will consume a significant amount of memory when passed to DecodeConfig. This could lead to a denial of service.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

golang.org/x/image

< 0.5.0

0.5.0

image

golang

< 0.5.0

0.5.0

Description

An attacker can craft a malformed TIFF image which will consume a significant amount of memory when passed to DecodeConfig. This could lead to a denial of service.

NVD description

An attacker can craft a malformed TIFF image which will consume a significant amount of memory when passed to DecodeConfig. This could lead to a denial of service.

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