USN-8135-1

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    USN-8135-1

    Published: 31 Mar 2026Last Modified: 25 Jun 2026

    Summary: pillow vulnerabilities

    Details: It was discovered that Pillow did not correctly handle reading J2K files, which could lead to an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-25287, CVE-2021-25288) It was discovered that Pillow did not correctly handle certain integer arithmetic, which could lead to a buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-25290) It was discovered that Pillow did not correctly perform bounds checking for certain operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-28675, CVE-2021-28676, CVE-2021-28677) It was discovered that Pillow did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-44271) It was discovered that Pillow did not correctly sanitize certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-50447)

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pillow

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/pillow?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.3.0-1ubuntu3.4+esm5

    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
    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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