Zero-Height Tiled Image Exploit: Triggering Excessive CPU Consumption through Image Decoding

Zero-Height Tiled Image Exploit: Triggering Excessive CPU Consumption through Image Decoding

CVE-2023-29407 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A maliciously-crafted image can cause excessive CPU consumption in decoding. A tiled image with a height of 0 and a very large width can cause excessive CPU consumption, despite the image size (width * height) appearing to be zero.

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