vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2021-28678: Excessive looping in BLP image reader (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Jun 2, 2021 | Nov 10, 2021 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 2, 2021
Added
Nov 10, 2021
Modified
Mar 27, 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.
Solutions
redhat-upgrade-python-pillow-debuginforedhat-upgrade-python-pillow-debugsourceredhat-upgrade-python3-pillowredhat-upgrade-python3-pillow-debuginforedhat-upgrade-python3-pillow-tk-debuginfo
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