UBUNTU-CVE-2021-28678

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2021-28678

    Published: 10 May 2021Last Modified: 2 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-28678
    Aliases:
    USN-4963-1

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. For BLP data, BlpImagePlugin did not properly check that reads (after jumping to file offsets) returned data. This could lead to a DoS where the decoder could be run a large number of times on empty data.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-28678, https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.2.0.html#cve-2021-28678-fix-blp-dos, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4963-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28678

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pillow

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=bionic

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.1.0-1ubuntu0.6

    Affected versions

    4.1.1-3build2

    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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