CVE-2023-29408 Excessive resource consumption in golang.org/x/image/tiff

What is CVE-2023-29408?

CVE-2023-29408 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 2 Aug 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The TIFF decoder does not place a limit on the size of compressed tile 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, consuming excessive memory and CPU.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-29408?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including golang.org/x/image. It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Golang Image.

How do I fix CVE-2023-29408?

Upgrade golang.org/x/image to 0.10.0 or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-29408 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-29408 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Fedora

• CVE-2024-4577 PHP-CGI OS Command Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-39226 Grafana Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-5544 VMware ESXi and Horizon DaaS OpenSLP Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-4947 Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-4671 Google Chromium Visuals Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6

All Fedoraproject Fedora vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2023-29408, GHSA-x92r-3vfx-4cv3, GO-2023-1989, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-29408, openSUSE-SU-2024:0194-2, openSUSE-SU-2024:13103-1.