CVE-2014-9601
mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.046 · 92 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 4.3–7.5
weaknesses
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affected products (6)
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advisories (2)
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- GHSA-h5rf-vgqx-wjv2Pillow denial of service via PNG bomb2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
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.
- PYSEC-2015-162015-01-16vendor · osvUS
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.
also known as (6)
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sources
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references (17)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://pillow.readthedocs.org/releasenotes/2.7.0.htmlcnnvd
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/1060cnnvd
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/02/pillow-security-release/cnnvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148442.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00056.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://pillow.readthedocs.org/releasenotes/2.7.0.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77758enisa_euvd
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