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Ubuntu: USN-4963-1 (CVE-2021-28678): Pillow vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4963-1 (CVE-2021-28678): Pillow vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/19/2021
Created
05/22/2021
Added
05/20/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

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.

Solution(s)

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

References

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