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Rocky Linux: CVE-2021-27922: python-pillow (RLSA-2021-4149)

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Mar 3, 2021

Added

Mar 12, 2024

Modified

Mar 31, 2026

Description

Pillow before 8.1.2 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.

Solutions

rocky-upgrade-python-pillow-debuginforocky-upgrade-python3-pillowrocky-upgrade-python3-pillow-debuginforocky-upgrade-python3-pillow-tk-debuginfo

References

CVE-2021-27922
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-27922
CWE-20
EUVD-EUVD-2021-0178
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:4149
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-0178

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