SB2019100503 - Denial of service in Pillow
Published: October 5, 2019 Updated: February 7, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019100503
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16865)
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EMJBUZQGQ2Q7HXYCQVRLU7OXNC7CAWWU/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYDXD7EE4YAEVSTNIFZKNVPRVJX5ZOG3/
- https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releasenotes/6.2.0.html