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CVE-2019-16865

Published: 4 October 2019

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 6.2.0. When reading specially crafted invalid image files, the library can either allocate very large amounts of memory or take an extremely long period of time to process the image.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
pillow
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (5.1.0-1ubuntu0.2)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan
Released (6.1.0-1ubuntu0.2)
trusty
Released (2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4+esm1)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
upstream
Released (6.2.0-1)
xenial
Released (3.1.2-0ubuntu1.3)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/b36c1bc943d554ba223086c7efb502d080f73905
upstream: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/f228d0ccbf6bf9392d7fcd51356ef2cfda80c75a
upstream: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/b9693a51c99c260bd66d1affeeab4a226cf7e5a5
upstream: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/cc16025e234b7a7a4dd3a86d2fdc0980698db9cc

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H