CVE-2020-11538

Summary

CVECVE-2020-11538
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-06-25 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:14:00 UTC
DescriptionIn libImaging/SgiRleDecode.c in Pillow through 7.0.0, a number of out-of-bounds reads exist in the parsing of SGI image files, a different issue than CVE-2020-5311.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Application Python Pillow All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: python-pillow-6.2.2-3.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: python-pillow-7.0.0-4.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Release Notes — Pillow (PIL Fork) 8.2.0 documentation MISC pillow.readthedocs.io Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
Fix buffer overflow in SGI-RLE decoding by hugovk · Pull Request #4504 · python-pillow/Pillow · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
USN-4430-1: Pillow vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
7.1.0 — Pillow (PIL Fork) 7.1.2 documentation MISC pillow.readthedocs.io Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: python-pillow-6.2.2-3.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
USN-4430-2: Pillow vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Update 7.1.0 release notes with CVEs by hugovk · Pull Request #4538 · python-pillow/Pillow · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: python-pillow-7.0.0-4.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296071 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 27.82.1 Missing (CPUOCT2020)
  • 377325 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for python-pillow (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0012)
  • 940280 AlmaLinux Security Update for python-pillow (ALSA-2020:3185)
  • 960877 Rocky Linux Security Update for python-pillow (RLSA-2020:3185)
  • 980743 Python (pip) Security Update for Pillow (GHSA-43fq-w8qq-v88h)
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