Denial of service in Pillow



Published: 2019-10-05 | Updated: 2020-02-07
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2019-16865
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
Subscribe 		Pillow
Universal components / Libraries / Libraries used by multiple products

Vendor Alex Clark and Contributors

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU25021

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1:

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16865

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect resource management issue when processing invalid images in Pillow. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion with a specially crafted image file and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Pillow: 6.0.0 - 6.1.0

CPE2.3 External links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EMJBUZQGQ2Q7HXYCQVRLU7OXNC7CAWWU/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYDXD7EE4YAEVSTNIFZKNVPRVJX5ZOG3/
http://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releasenotes/6.2.0.html


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?



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