Input validation error in py-pillow - CVE-2014-9601
Published: January 16, 2015 / Updated: August 3, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33084
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-9601
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
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.
Affected software
py-pillow
py-pillow (Alpine package)
python-pillow
Fedora
py-pillow (Alpine package)
python-pillow
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2014-9601
Install update from vendor's website.
py-pillow - update to 2.7.0
py-pillow (Alpine package) - update to 2.7.0-r0
python-pillow - update to 2.6.1-2.fc21
py-pillow (Alpine package) - update to 2.7.0-r0
python-pillow - update to 2.6.1-2.fc21
External References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148442.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00056.html
- http://pillow.readthedocs.org/releasenotes/2.7.0.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77758
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/1060
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/02/pillow-security-release/