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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-28678: Moderate: python-pillow security update (ALSA-2021-4149)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-28678: Moderate: python-pillow security update (ALSA-2021-4149)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/02/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. For BLP data, BlpImagePlugin did not properly check that reads (after jumping to file offsets) returned data. This could lead to a DoS where the decoder could be run a large number of times on empty data.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-python3-pillow

References

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