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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-28678: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 2, 2021
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

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

alpine-linux-upgrade-py3-pillow
Title
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