CVE-2026-46603

NameCVE-2026-46603
DescriptionVP8L decoding in golang.org/x/image/vp8l can allocate an excessive amount of memory when processing a crafted VP8L image containing many unused Huffman tree groups. This allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via memory exhaustion.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1144496

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
golang-golang-x-image (PTS)bookworm0.5.0-1vulnerable
trixie0.18.0-1vulnerable
forky, sid0.45.0-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
golang-golang-x-imagesource(unstable)0.45.0-11144496

Notes

[trixie] - golang-golang-x-image <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - golang-golang-x-image <postponed> (Minor issue; out of LTS support)
[bullseye] - golang-golang-x-image <postponed> (Minor issue; out of LTS support)
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/80069
Fixed by: https://github.com/golang/image/commit/981eaa05a5065f5dd09c3139029c0d7dbda956d8 (v0.45.0)

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