CVE-2014-9601
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · Improper input validation
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Pillow before 2.7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a compressed text chunk in a PNG image that has a large size when it is decompressed.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)5%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://pillow.readthedocs.org/releasenotes/2.7.0.htmlAdvisory
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/1060Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148442.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00056.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77758
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/02/pillow-security-release/Advisory