USN-6618-1

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    USN-6618-1

    Published: 30 Jan 2024Last Modified: 27 Apr 2026

    Summary: pillow vulnerabilities

    Details: It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled certain long text arguments. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-44271) Duarte Santos discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled the environment parameter to PIL.ImageMath.eval. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-50447)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6618-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-44271, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-50447

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pillow

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -7.0.0-4ubuntu0.8

    Affected versions

    6.1.0-1
    6.1.0-1build1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
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    Availability
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