vulnerability
FreeBSD: VID-ed8a4215-675c-11ec-8dd4-a0f3c100ae18 (CVE-2021-23437): Pillow -- Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Sep 3, 2021 | Nov 4, 2022 | Dec 10, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 3, 2021
Added
Nov 4, 2022
Modified
Dec 10, 2025
Description
GitHub Advisory Database reports: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in pillow. The package pillow from 0 and before 8.3.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the getrgb function. References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23437 https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/9e08eb8f78fdfd2f476e1b20b7cf38683754866b https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.3.2.html https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PILLOW-1319443 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/RNSG6VFXTAROGF7ACYLMAZNQV4EJ6I2C/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VKRCL7KKAKOXCVD7M6WC5OKFGL4L3SJT/
Solution
freebsd-upgrade-package-py38-pillow
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