Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pillow package, versions [,6.2.0)
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EPSS
2.03% (90th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PILLOW-536096
- published 26 Nov 2019
- disclosed 4 Oct 2019
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 4 Oct 2019
CVE-2019-16865 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Pillow to version 6.2.0 or higher.
Overview
Pillow is a PIL (Python Imaging Library) fork.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. When reading specially crafted invalid image files, the library can either allocate very large amounts of memory or take an extremely long period of time to process the image.
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