CVE-2019-19911

Publication date 5 January 2020

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

There is a DoS vulnerability in Pillow before 6.2.2 caused by FpxImagePlugin.py calling the range function on an unvalidated 32-bit integer if the number of bands is large. On Windows running 32-bit Python, this results in an OverflowError or MemoryError due to the 2 GB limit. However, on Linux running 64-bit Python this results in the process being terminated by the OOM killer.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
pillow	19.10 eoan	Fixed 6.1.0-1ubuntu0.2
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 5.1.0-1ubuntu0.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 3.1.2-0ubuntu1.3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4+esm1 Ubuntu Pro

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
pillow	Upstream: 774e53b

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4272-1
Pillow vulnerabilities
6 February 2020