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Buffer Overflow in Pillow

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 5, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 17, 2023

Package

pip pillow (pip)

Affected versions

< 8.3.0

Patched versions

8.3.0

Description

Pillow through 8.2.0 and PIL (aka Python Imaging Library) through 1.1.7 allow an attacker to pass controlled parameters directly into a convert function to trigger a buffer overflow in Convert.c.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 13, 2021
Reviewed Oct 5, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 5, 2021
Last updated Apr 17, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-34552

GHSA ID

GHSA-7534-mm45-c74v

Source code

Credits

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