In short
- CVE-2026-46599 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting golang.org/x/image.
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.35%, higher than 29.0% of all vulnerabilities.
- Fix: update to 0.41.0 or later.
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.
NVD 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.
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