SB2022112231 - Denial of service in Pillow
Published: November 22, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022112231
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-2022-45199)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the TiffImagePlugin.py when setting up the context for image decoding. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion via a large value in the SAMPLESPERPIXEL tag and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.