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

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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
06/02/2021
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

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)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-py3-pillow

References

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