ALPINE-CVE-2021-27921

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    ALPINE-CVE-2021-27921

    Published: 3 Mar 2021Last Modified: 27 Aug 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-27921

    Summary:

    Details: 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 a BLP container, and thus an attempted memory allocation can be very large.

    References: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-27921

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: py3-pillow

    Purl: pkg:apk/alpine/py3-pillow?arch=source

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -8.1.2-r0

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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