Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2024-03-06 11:04
Modified
2025-08-18 08:35
Summary
Details

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 ICNS container, and thus an attempted memory allocation can be very large.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "pillow",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/pillow"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "8.1.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-27922"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:python:pillow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "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 ICNS container, and thus an attempted memory allocation can be very large.",
  "id": "BIT-pillow-2021-27922",
  "modified": "2025-08-18T08:35:59.174Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T11:04:03.696Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S7G44Z33J4BNI2DPDROHWGVG2U7ZH5JU/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TQQY6472RX4J2SUJENWDZAWKTJJGP2ML/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZTSY25UJU7NJUFHH3HWT575LT4TDFWBZ/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.1.1.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-33"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-27922"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S7G44Z33J4BNI2DPDROHWGVG2U7ZH5JU/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TQQY6472RX4J2SUJENWDZAWKTJJGP2ML/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZTSY25UJU7NJUFHH3HWT575LT4TDFWBZ/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.1.2.html"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0"
}


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