CVE-2019-16865

Publication date 4 October 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 6.2.0. When reading specially crafted invalid image files, the library can either allocate very large amounts of memory or take an extremely long period of time to process the image.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
pillow	19.10 eoan	Fixed 6.1.0-1ubuntu0.2
	19.04 disco	Ignored
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 5.1.0-1ubuntu0.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 3.1.2-0ubuntu1.3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4+esm1 Ubuntu Pro

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
pillow	Upstream: b36c1bc Upstream: f228d0c Upstream: b9693a5 Upstream: cc16025

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4272-1
Pillow vulnerabilities
6 February 2020