Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pillow (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-PILLOW-542614
- published18 Oct 2019
- disclosed4 Oct 2019
Introduced: 4 Oct 2019
CVE-2019-16865 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pillow package and not the pillow package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-16865
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4631
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-16865
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EMJBUZQGQ2Q7HXYCQVRLU7OXNC7CAWWU/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYDXD7EE4YAEVSTNIFZKNVPRVJX5ZOG3/
- https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releasenotes/6.2.0.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0681
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0683
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0694
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0566
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0578
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0580
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4272-1/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EMJBUZQGQ2Q7HXYCQVRLU7OXNC7CAWWU/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYDXD7EE4YAEVSTNIFZKNVPRVJX5ZOG3/