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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-25292: Moderate: python-pillow security update (ALSA-2021-4149)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-25292: Moderate: python-pillow security update (ALSA-2021-4149)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/19/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.1.1. The PDF parser allows a regular expression DoS (ReDoS) attack via a crafted PDF file because of a catastrophic backtracking regex.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-python3-pillow

References

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