GHSA-xg8h-j46f-w952

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Pillow vulnerability can cause write buffer overflow on BCn encoding

view advisory published 2025-07-01Licence: CC-BY-4.0

There is a heap buffer overflow when writing a sufficiently large (>64k encoded with default settings) image in the DDS format due to writing into a buffer without checking for available space. This only affects users who save untrusted data as a compressed DDS image. * Unclear how large the potential write could be. It is likely limited by process segfault, so it's not necessarily deterministic. It may be practically unbounded. * Unclear if there's a restriction on the bytes that could be emitted. It's likely that the only restriction is that the bytes would be emitted in chunks of 8 or 16. This was introduced in Pillow 11.2.0 when the feature was added.

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CVE-2025-48379USmedium5.5—
Pillow is a Python imaging library. In versions 11.2.0 to before 11.3.0, there is a heap buffer overflow when writing a sufficiently large (>64k encoded with default settings) imag…
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