Out-of-bounds Write Affecting pillow package, versions [6.0.0,8.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.27% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PILLOW-1059090
  • published 12 Jan 2021
  • disclosed 12 Jan 2021
  • credit Unknown

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 Write via OOB Write in TiffDecode.c when reading corrupt YCbCr files. This happens because of certain interpretation conflicts with LibTIFF in RGBA mode.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.9 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

8.8 high
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SUSE

8.8 high
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Red Hat

9.8 critical