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.

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Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:45:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-400
CWE-789

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:45:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Excessive memory allocation during VP8L decoding in golang.org/x/image
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Go

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-14T16:38:16.879Z

Reserved: 2026-05-15T17:35:00.814Z

Link: CVE-2026-46603

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-14T17:18:15.307

Modified: 2026-08-14T17:18:15.307

Link: CVE-2026-46603

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Updated: 2026-08-14T17:30:12Z

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