CVE-2021-27923
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-03 08:41
Modified
2024-08-03 21:33
Severity ?
Summary
Pillow before 8.1.1 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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S7G44Z33J4BNI2DPDROHWGVG2U7ZH5JU/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TQQY6472RX4J2SUJENWDZAWKTJJGP2ML/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZTSY25UJU7NJUFHH3HWT575LT4TDFWBZ/
cve@mitre.orghttps://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.1.1.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-33Third Party Advisory
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