Out-of-bounds Read Affecting pillow package, versions [4.3.0,8.1.0)


0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.11% (45th percentile)
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NVD
5.4 medium
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Red Hat
5.4 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PILLOW-1055462
  • published 5 Jan 2021
  • disclosed 5 Jan 2021
  • credit Eric Soroos

How to fix?

Upgrade Pillow to version 8.1.0 or higher.

Overview

Pillow is a PIL (Python Imaging Library) fork.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. There is a 4 byte read overflow in SGIRleDecode.c, where the code is not correctly checking the offsets and length tables.

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