CVE-2021-28678

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. For BLP data, BlpImagePlugin did not properly check that reads (after jumping to file offsets) returned data. This could lead to a DoS where the decoder could be run a large number of times on empty data.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2021-06-02

Last modified

2024-08-03

Weaknesses

CWE-345

Affected products

• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Pillow (Python)

References

• https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/5377
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MQHA5HAIBOYI3R6HDWCLAG…
• https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.2.0.html#cve-2021-28678-fix-blp-dos
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-33