SB2020022119 - Red Hat update for python-pillow
Published: February 21, 2020
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
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.
2) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-5311)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists in the "ibImaging/SgiRleDecode.c" file due to a boundary error when processing an SGI image. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
3) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-5312)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists in the "libImaging/PcxDecode.c" file due to a boundary error when processing PCX image. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.