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FreeBSD: VID-998CA824-EF55-11E9-B81F-3085A9A95629 (CVE-2019-16865): Pillow -- Allocation of resources without limits or throttling

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FreeBSD: VID-998CA824-EF55-11E9-B81F-3085A9A95629 (CVE-2019-16865): Pillow -- Allocation of resources without limits or throttling

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/24/2019
Created
10/18/2019
Added
10/16/2019
Modified
03/05/2020

Description

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 6.2.0. When reading specially crafted invalid image files, the library can either allocate very large amounts of memory or take an extremely long period of time to process the image.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-py27-pillow
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-py35-pillow
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-py36-pillow
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-py37-pillow

References

  • CVE-2019-16865

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