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Unscored GO-2026-5781

Uncatchable stack-overflow denial of service in rsc.io/pdf

Published Jul 27, 2026 · Updated Jul 27, 2026 · Assigned by GO

Description

pdf.Open and PDF object resolution in rsc.io/pdf recurse without bound on nested arrays and dictionaries. A sufficiently deeply nested document exhausts the goroutine stack limit and triggers a fatal, uncatchable stack overflow. Any service that parses untrusted PDFs with rsc.io/pdf can therefore be taken down by a single small input.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go rsc.io/pdf all versions — GO-2026-5781

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