Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pillow package, versions [,6.2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.03% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PILLOW-536096
  • published26 Nov 2019
  • disclosed4 Oct 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-16865  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How 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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