CVE-2014-9601
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
Pillow before 2.7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a compressed text chunk in a PNG image that has a large size when it is decompressed.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Fedora Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 13.2 | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2.6.1-2 |
| sid | Fixed | 2.6.1-2 |
| forky | Fixed | 2.6.1-2 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.6.1-2 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2.6.1-2 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | pillow | <2.7.0 | 2.7.0 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| python | pillow | {"endIncluding":"2.6.2"} | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148442.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00056.html
- http://pillow.readthedocs.org/releasenotes/2.7.0.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77758
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/1060
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/02/pillow-security-release/
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9601
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pillow/PYSEC-2015-16.yaml
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200227221255/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77758
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/02/pillow-security-release
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9601
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.