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HIGH7.5

GHSA-8q6g-vjhf-jp8m

psd-tools composite/numpy has uncontrolled memory allocation via crafted PSD geometry

Quick fix

GHSA-8q6g-vjhf-jp8m — psd-tools: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'psd-tools>=1.17.4'

Details

### Summary `PSDImage.composite()` (and `.numpy()`) allocate the output image buffer from the PSD's header geometry (width × height × channels × depth, and per-layer rectangles) before validating those values against the actual file contents. A tiny crafted PSD declaring huge dimensions causes a multi-gigabyte allocation. Critically, `composite()` then returns a (black) image with only a warning, no exception is raised, so a caller cannot detect or guard against it.

### Impact On psd-tools 1.17.2 (latest), default usage, a 49-byte PSD makes `composite()` commit ~3 GB and return successfully (warning only); `.numpy()` reaches ~7.5 GB, and the per-layer rectangle is a second lever (up to ~32 GB), all from an input under 100 bytes (input-to-commit amplification over 1000×). Because the buffer is committed before validation and no exception is thrown, any service that composites untrusted PSDs is exposed to denial of service: on a host with less RAM than the attacker-declared geometry the allocation is an unrecoverable OOM-kill.

### Steps to reproduce ```python # pip install psd-tools==1.17.2 from psd_tools import PSDImage psd = PSDImage.open("psd-psdtools-grammar-d23.psd") psd.composite() # commits ~3 GB from a 49-byte file and returns (warning only) ```

PoC (49 bytes), reconstruct with: ```sh base64 -d > psd-psdtools-grammar-d23.psd <<'EOF' OEJQUwABAAAAAAAAAAYAACg4AAAXTAAIAAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUNIUIFU+yQtDw== EOF ``` Verify: ``` 7d8ebf03a54393cb0359ecf4b676d1b08c9a8c6afdd06671ef406d6893cce826 psd-psdtools-grammar-d23.psd ```

### Root cause The composite/numpy buffer is sized from the declared image (and per-layer) dimensions and channel/depth without checking them against the available data length or a sane maximum.

### Suggested fix Validate the declared dimensions, channel count, and per-layer rectangles against the actual file length (and a configurable maximum pixel/byte budget) before allocating; raise an error on overflow instead of committing the buffer and returning a black image.

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Affected packages

PyPI/psd-tools
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.17.4
Fixpip install --upgrade 'psd-tools>=1.17.4'

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