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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.

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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)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Related notices

  • USN-3080-1: python-imaging
  • USN-3229-1: python-imaging
  • USN-3230-1: python-imaging-tk, python-pil, python3-imaging-tk, python-imaging-sane, python3-imaging, python3-pil.imagetk, python3-pil, python-imaging, pillow, python3-sane, python-pil.imagetk, python-imaging-compat, python-sane, python-pil-doc, python3-imaging-sane, python-imaging-doc
  • USN-3090-2: python-imaging-tk, python-pil, python3-imaging-tk, python-imaging-sane, python3-imaging, python3-pil.imagetk, python3-pil, python-imaging, pillow, python3-sane, python-pil.imagetk, python-imaging-compat, python-sane, python-pil-doc, python3-imaging-sane, python-imaging-doc