SB2022112231 - Denial of service in Pillow 



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

Medium 100%
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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.