Description
Pillow before 8.1.2 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.
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Remediation
No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.
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Tracking
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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EUVD |
EUVD-2021-0179 | Pillow before 8.1.2 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. |
Github GHSA |
GHSA-95q3-8gr9-gm8w | Pillow Denial of Service by Uncontrolled Resource Consumption |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-4763-1 | Pillow vulnerabilities |
References
History
Fri, 15 Aug 2025 05:00:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| Description | Pillow 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. | Pillow before 8.1.2 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. |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2025-08-15T04:40:08.382Z
Reserved: 2021-03-03T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2021-27923
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Status : Modified
Published: 2021-03-03T09:15:14.327
Modified: 2025-08-15T05:15:29.843
Link: CVE-2021-27923
OpenCVE Enrichment
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EUVD
Github GHSA
Ubuntu USN