vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2021-27922: Important priority package update for python-pillow

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 3, 2021
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 4, 2025

Description

Pillow before 8.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) because the reported size of a contained image is not properly checked for an ICNS container, and thus an attempted memory allocation can be very large.
A flaw was found in python-pillow. Attackers can cause a denial of service (memory consumption) because the reported size of a contained image is not properly checked for an ICNS container, and thus an attempted memory allocation can be very large.

Solutions

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-python3-pillowamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-python3-pillow-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-python3-pillow-develamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-python3-pillow-tkamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-python3-pillow-tk-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-python-pillow-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-python-pillow-debugsource
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