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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.17% (55th percentile)

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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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.2 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • 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

9.8 critical
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Red Hat

6.2 medium