FKIE_CVE-2026-59198

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-14 16:17 - Updated: 2026-07-14 20:18
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 5.2.0 until 12.3.0, Pillow's TGA RLE encoder reads past its packed row buffer when saving a mode 1 image with TGA RLE compression, allowing adjacent process heap bytes to be copied into the generated TGA file. This issue is fixed in version 12.3.0.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/eada3cbd7fb9963ee90673fb7b5270124a0d5f4bPatch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/9709Issue Tracking, Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/12.3.0Release Notes
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-fj7v-r99m-22gqExploit, Vendor Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-fj7v-r99m-22gqExploit, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
python pillow *
To clipboard 

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