CVE-2014-9601

Summary

CVECVE-2014-9601
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-01-16 16:59:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-30 16:27:00 UTC
DescriptionPillow before 2.7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a compressed text chunk in a PNG image that has a large size when it is decompressed.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 21 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 21 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All
Operating System Oracle Solaris 11.2 All All All
Operating System Oracle Solaris 11.2 All All All
Application Python Pillow All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: python-pillow-2.6.1-2.fc21 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
Opensuse CVE-2014-9601 Denial-Of-Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Pillow 2.7.0 — Pillow v2.7.0 (PIL fork) CONFIRM pillow.readthedocs.org Vendor Advisory
Security Advisory: Pillow security release | Weblog | Django CONFIRM www.djangoproject.com Third Party Advisory
Oracle Solaris Third Party Bulletin - July 2015 CONFIRM www.oracle.com Third Party Advisory
Fix potential PNG decompression DOS by wiredfool · Pull Request #1060 · python-pillow/Pillow · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Vendor Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2015:0798-1: moderate: Security update for python-Pillow SUSE lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 355393 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for python-pillow : ALAS2-2023-2083
  • 670204 EulerOS Security Update for python-pillow (EulerOS-SA-2021-1702)
  • 994931 Python (Pip) Security Update for pillow (GHSA-h5rf-vgqx-wjv2)
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