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CVE-2026-46603GO-2026-6222

Excessive memory allocation during VP8L decoding in golang.org/x/image

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.45.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

VP8L 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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • golang.org/x/image/vp8l

    fixed in 0.45.0

  • golang.org/x/imageGo

    fixed in 0.45.0

References 3

go.dev

pkg.go.dev