CVE-2021-27923

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-27923
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-03-03 09:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:32:00 UTC
DescriptionPillow before 8.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) because the reported size of a contained image is not properly checked for an ICO container, and thus an attempted memory allocation can be very large.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Python Pillow All All All All
Application Python Pillow All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: python-pillow-8.1.2-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: python-pillow-8.1.2-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: python-pillow-7.2.0-5.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: python2-pillow-6.2.2-5.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: python2-pillow-6.2.2-5.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
8.1.1 — Pillow (PIL Fork) 8.1.1 documentation MISC pillow.readthedocs.io Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Pillow: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202107-33) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: python-pillow-7.2.0-5.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 179608 Debian Security Update for pillow (CVE-2021-27923)
  • 198292 Ubuntu Security Notification for Pillow Vulnerabilities (USN-4763-1)
  • 239802 Red Hat Update for python-pillow (RHSA-2021:4149)
  • 281526 Fedora Security Update for mingw (FEDORA-2021-15845d3abe)
  • 281527 Fedora Security Update for mingw (FEDORA-2021-9016a9b7bd)
  • 281528 Fedora Security Update for python (FEDORA-2021-0ece308612)
  • 296067 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 33.94.0 Missing (CPUAPR2021)
  • 355121 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for python-pillow : ALAS2023-2023-146
  • 377325 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for python-pillow (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0012)
  • 501767 Alpine Linux Security Update for py3-pillow
  • 505316 Alpine Linux Security Update for py3-pillow
  • 670495 EulerOS Security Update for python-pillow (EulerOS-SA-2021-2253)
  • 670521 EulerOS Security Update for python-pillow (EulerOS-SA-2021-2279)
  • 670558 EulerOS Security Update for python-pillow (EulerOS-SA-2021-2314)
  • 710035 Gentoo Linux Pillow Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202107-33)
  • 750950 OpenSUSE Security Update for python-CairoSVG, python-Pillow (openSUSE-SU-2021:1134-1)
  • 940109 AlmaLinux Security Update for python-pillow (ALSA-2021:4149)
  • 982896 Python (pip) Security Update for Pillow (GHSA-95q3-8gr9-gm8w)
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