USN-3090-1

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    USN-3090-1

    Published: 27 Sept 2016Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: Pillow vulnerabilities

    Details: It was discovered that a flaw in processing a compressed text chunk in a PNG image could cause the image to have a large size when decompressed, potentially leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2014-9601) Andrew Drake discovered that Pillow incorrectly validated input. A remote attacker could use this to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-3589) Eric Soroos discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled certain malformed FLI, Tiff, and PhotoCD files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-0740, CVE-2016-0775, CVE-2016-2533)

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pillow

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.3.0-1ubuntu3.2

    Affected versions

    2.2.1-1ubuntu2
    2.2.1-2ubuntu1
    2.2.1-3ubuntu2
    2.2.1-3ubuntu3
    2.2.1-3ubuntu4
    2.2.1-3ubuntu6

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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