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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-9189): Pillow vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-9189): Pillow vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/04/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/14/2017
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

Pillow before 3.3.2 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by using the "crafted image file" approach, related to an "Integer Overflow" issue affecting the Image.core.map_buffer in map.c component.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-imaging
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-pil
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-imaging
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-pil

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