USN-3090-1: Pillow vulnerabilities
27 September 2016
Pillow could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input or opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- pillow - Python Imaging Library compatibility layer
Details
It was discovered that a flaw in processing a compressed text chunk in
a PNG image could cause the image to have a large size when decompressed,
potentially leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2014-9601)
Andrew Drake discovered that Pillow incorrectly validated input. A remote
attacker could use this to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial
of service. (CVE-2014-3589)
Eric Soroos discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled certain malformed
FLI, Tiff, and PhotoCD files. A remote attacker could use this issue to
cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2016-0740, CVE-2016-0775, CVE-2016-2533)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 14.04
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python-imaging
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2.3.0-1ubuntu3.2
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python-pil
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2.3.0-1ubuntu3.2
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python3-imaging
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2.3.0-1ubuntu3.2
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python3-pil
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2.3.0-1ubuntu3.2
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.