Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting pillow package, versions [9.1.0,9.1.1)


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.17% (54th percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical
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Red Hat
6.2 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PILLOW-2838873
  • published 19 May 2022
  • disclosed 17 May 2022
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade Pillow to version 9.1.1 or higher.

Overview

Pillow is a PIL (Python Imaging Library) fork.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow. When reading a TGA file with RLE packets that cross scan lines. Pillow reads the information past the end of the first line without deducting that from the length of the remaining file data.