CVE-2014-9601

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-9601
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-01-16 16:59:17 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 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

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-20 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

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

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: python-pillow-2.6.1-2.fc21 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
Fix potential PNG decompression DOS by wiredfool · Pull Request #1060 · python-pillow/Pillow · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Vendor Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2015:0798-1: moderate: Security update for python-Pillow af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
Oracle Solaris Third Party Bulletin - July 2015 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory: Pillow security release | Weblog | Django af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.djangoproject.com Third Party Advisory
Opensuse CVE-2014-9601 Denial-Of-Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Pillow 2.7.0 — Pillow v2.7.0 (PIL fork) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 pillow.readthedocs.org Vendor 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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