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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-27923
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...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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 ICO container, and thus an attempted memory allocation can be very large.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
pillow
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.1.2-1"}]}]
Debian:13
pillow
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.1.2-1"}]}]
Debian:14
pillow
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.1.2-1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org