GO-2026-4815

OOM from malicious IFD offset in golang.org/x/image/tiff

At a glance

Published: 2026-03-25 18:02 UTC
Updated: 2026-05-15 10:59 UTC
CVE: CVE-2026-33809
Aliases: GHSA-44p7-9xx4-hf2g

Description

A maliciously crafted TIFF file can cause image decoding to attempt to allocate up 4GiB of memory, causing either excessive resource consumption or an out-of-memory error.

Affected packages

Package	Versions
Go · golang.org/x/image	introduced 0, fixed 0.38.0

References

https://go.dev/cl/757660 FIX
https://go.dev/issue/78267 REPORT

Sources

Source	Licence
OSV.dev	CC-BY 4.0 — Go Vulnerability Database