Medium
Security advisory
A potential DoS vulnerability was discovered in GitLab CE/EE starting with version 13.7. Using a malformed TIFF images was possible to trigger memory exhaustion.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-39912
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A potential DoS vulnerability was discovered in GitLab CE/EE starting with version 13.7. Using a malformed TIFF images was possible to trigger memory exhaustion.
osv:CVE-2021-39912
Complete source record
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