ImageSharp: Tiled fax TIFF: tile buffer sized by TileWidth but fax decompressor writes scanlines of ImageWidth — heap OOB write

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ImageSharp is a 2D graphics library. From 3.0.0 until 4.1.1, tiled TIFF decoding allocates a destination buffer using TileWidth but TiffDecompressorsFactory.Create constructs T4, T6, and Modified Huffman decompressors using the full frame width. TiffDecoderCore.DecodeTilesChunky can therefore direct frame-width fax scanlines into a tile-width buffer when TileWidth is smaller than ImageWidth. The mismatch causes attacker-controlled out-of-bounds writes, heap corruption, and process termination even with legal per-row run codes. This tiled-path vulnerability is distinct from oversized CCITT runs in strip decoding. This issue is fixed in version 4.1.1.

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6 Oct 2026 17:59:02 UTC

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6 Oct 2026 19:29:39 UTC

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23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC

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CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

ImageSharp is a 2D graphics library. From 3.0.0 until 4.1.1, tiled TIFF decoding allocates a destination buffer using TileWidth but TiffDecompressorsFactory.Create constructs T4, T6, and Modified Huffman decompressors using the full frame width. TiffDecoderCore.DecodeTilesChunky can therefore direct frame-width fax scanlines into a tile-width buffer when TileWidth is smaller than ImageWidth. The mismatch causes attacker-controlled out-of-bounds writes, heap corruption, and process termination even with legal per-row run codes. This tiled-path vulnerability is distinct from oversized CCITT runs in strip decoding. This issue is fixed in version 4.1.1.

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28 Oct 2026 00:49:11 UTC

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EUVD CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

ImageSharp is a 2D graphics library. From 3.0.0 until 4.1.1, tiled TIFF decoding allocates a destination buffer using TileWidth but TiffDecompressorsFactory.Create constructs T4, T6, and Modified Huffman decompressors using the full frame width. TiffDecoderCore.DecodeTilesChunky can therefore direct frame-width fax scanlines into a tile-width buffer when TileWidth is smaller than ImageWidth. The mismatch causes attacker-controlled out-of-bounds writes, heap corruption, and process termination even with legal per-row run codes. This tiled-path vulnerability is distinct from oversized CCITT runs in strip decoding. This issue is fixed in version 4.1.1.

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6 Oct 2026 19:17:42 UTC

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6 Oct 2026 20:17:17 UTC

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25 Oct 2026 04:17:41 UTC

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CVSS 3.1 · [email protected] · Secondary · 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

## Summary When decoding a tiled TIFF with fax compression (T4/T6/MH), `DecodeTilesChunky` allocates each tile buffer from **TileWidth** (`ceil(TileWidth*bpp/8)*TileLength` bytes) but constructs the fax decompressor with **frame.Width**: `TiffDecompressorsFactory` ignores the `isTiled/tileWidth/tileHeight` parameters entirely. The T4/T6/MH decompressors treat the full image width as the scanline length and advance (and really write, via read-modify-write bit ops) `frame.Width` bits per row, with no bounds check against the tile buffer. The very first tile therefore writes linearly out of bounds — about `ImageWidth/8` bytes per row × TileLength rows into a `TileWidth`-sized buffer. With ImageWidth=4,000,000, TileWidth=16, TileLength=16 this writes ~2 MB past a 32-byte buffer and kills the process deterministically; a T6 all-white variant advances the bit offset by >512 MB silently, showing an alarm-free heap-corruption window for the same defect. A crafted file fully controls the OOB length per tile and works with perfectly legal per-row run codes (no overlong runs needed). Verified at commit `5cd4d0d26a82a9549f297a237aea9cf665bddff8` (main; latest release v4.1.0, the supported major). ## Details Root cause: a size mismatch between tile buffer allocation and decompressor width, because the factory drops the tile parameters. - Allocation: [TiffDecoderCore.cs#L792-L794](https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp/blob/5cd4d0d26a82a9549f297a237aea9cf665bddff8/src/ImageSharp/Formats/Tiff/TiffDecoderCore.cs#L792-L794) — `bytesPerTileRow = RoundUpToMultipleOfEight(tileWidth*bitsPerPixel)`; tile buffer = `bytesPerTileRow*tileLength` bytes (32 bytes in the PoC) - Mismatch: [TiffDecoderCore.cs#L797](https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp/blob/5cd4d0d26a82a9549f297a237aea9cf665bddff8/src/ImageSharp/Formats/Tiff/TiffDecoderCore.cs#L797) — `CreateDecompressor<TPixel>(frame.Width, ..., isTiled: true, tileWidth, tileLength)` passes the full frame width - Factory drops tile params: [TiffDecompressorsFactory.cs#L56-L64](https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp/blob/5cd4d0d26a82a9549f297a237aea9cf665bddff8/src/ImageSharp/Formats/Tiff/Compression/TiffDecompressorsFactory.cs#L56-L64) — T4/T6/MH decompressors receive only `width` (= frame.Width); `isTiled/tileWidth/tileHeight` ignored - OOB write sink: [T4TiffCompression.cs#L69-L119](https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp/blob/5cd4d0d26a82a9549f297a237aea9cf665bddff8/src/ImageSharp/Formats/Tiff/Compression/Decompressors/T4TiffCompression.cs#L69-L119), `T6TiffCompression.cs#L76-L108` — per-row advance of `this.width` bits via `BitWriterUtils.WriteBits` with no buffer-length check ([BitWriterUtils.cs#L51](https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp/blob/5cd4d0d26a82a9549f297a237aea9cf665bddff8/src/ImageSharp/Formats/Tiff/Compression/BitWriterUtils.cs#L51)); note `TiffDecoderCore.cs:829-831` later reads the buffer in `bytesPerTileRow` strides, confirming the protocol expects tile-width rows Attack surface: `Image.Load(stream)` on an attacker-supplied tiled TIFF (`TiffDecoderCore.DecodeImageWithTiles` → `DecodeTilesChunky`). Default configuration; only requirement is a standard tiled TIFF header (TileWidth=16, TileLength=16) + Compression=3 (T4; T6 also constructible). **Suggested remediation:** 1. Short-term: when `isTiled`, construct the T4/T6/MH decompressor with `tileWidth` (not frame width), or clip row writes to the caller-provided buffer length. 2. Root fix: bound the write side of `BitWriterUtils` (pass remaining bits), and validate every fax row advance against buffer capacity on both tiled and strip paths. 3. Regression tests: Compression=2/3/4 × tiled with TileWidth < ImageWidth, including a T6 black-pixel row (forces real `WriteBit`). ## PoC Full PoC posted as the first comment below: `Program.cs` (driver), `poc-tiled-t4.tif` (crafted file, ~9.8 KB, base64 inline), README. 1. Build a small console project referencing `src/ImageSharp/ImageSharp.csproj` and run it against the crafted file (or call `Image.Load` on it from any host). 2. Observed with ImageWidth=4,000,000, TileWidth=16, TileLength=16, T4 with 400 makeup codes + EOL per row: ``` tile payload 9642 bytes; rows write ~2,048,000 bytes into a 32-byte buffer Fatal error. System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. at SixLabors.ImageSharp.Formats.Tiff.Compression.BitWriterUtils.WriteBits(Span`1<Byte>, IntPtr, IntPtr, Byte) at ...T4TiffCompression.WritePixelRun(...) at ...T4TiffCompression.Decompress(...) Aborted (core dumped); exit=134 ``` 3. Controls: the same file with Compression=None decodes normally (container is fine); a T6 all-white-rows variant advances >512 MB of bit offset without a real write (silent corruption window) before tripping on a directory-level TileOffsets count check. ## Impact - **What it is:** out-of-bounds write (CWE-787). For any service decoding untrusted tiled TIFFs: remote, default-configuration, deterministic process crash (DoS), plus a heap OOB write whose per-tile length and row width are attacker-tunable — a potential code-execution surface. This is a vulnerability in the library itself, in scope of your SECURITY.md. - **Who is impacted:** applications decoding untrusted TIFF with SixLabors.ImageSharp at the current major (verified on main past v4.1.0); tiled + fax-compressed files are the trigger, which ordinary TIFF writers can produce. --- --- Reported by **Kimi Security Team** ([email protected]).

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7 Oct 2026 16:18:57 UTC

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26 Oct 2026 16:15:54 UTC

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26 Oct 2026 16:35:36 UTC

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CVSS_V3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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