GHSA-r73j-pqj5-w3x7

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Pillow has a PDF Parsing Trailer Infinite Loop (DoS)

view advisory published 2026-05-04Licence: CC-BY-4.0

### Impact An attacker can supply a malicious PDF that causes the process to hang indefinitely, consuming 100% CPU and making the application unresponsive. ### Patches Patched version: 12.2.0. PdfParser (introduced in Pillow 4.2.0) follows Prev pointers in PDF trailers to read cross-reference sections. If a trailer's Prev pointer references an offset that has already been processed — either pointing to itself or forming a longer cycle — the parser enters an infinite loop. Pillow now tracks previously processed trailer offsets and raises an error if a cycle is detected. ### Workarounds Use any version but the affected versions: >= 4.2.0, < 12.2.0 ### Resources - Fix: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/9519

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CVE-2026-42310USmedium5.5—
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From version 4.2.0 to before version 12.2.0, an attacker can supply a malicious PDF that causes the process to hang indefinitely, consuming 100%…
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