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Ubuntu: USN-4763-1 (CVE-2021-25292): Pillow vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4763-1 (CVE-2021-25292): Pillow vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/11/2021
Created
03/15/2021
Added
03/12/2021
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.1.1. The PDF parser allows a regular expression DoS (ReDoS) attack via a crafted PDF file because of a catastrophic backtracking regex.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-pil
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-pil

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