Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pillow package, versions <2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4+esm1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.71% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-PILLOW-546874
  • published18 Oct 2019
  • disclosed4 Oct 2019

Introduced: 4 Oct 2019

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 pillow to version 2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4+esm1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pillow package and not the pillow package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 6.2.0. 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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1