CVE-2021-28678

NameCVE-2021-28678
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. For BLP data, BlpImagePlugin did not properly check that reads (after jumping to file offsets) returned data. This could lead to a DoS where the decoder could be run a large number of times on empty data.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs989062

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
pillow (PTS)buster5.4.1-2+deb10u3fixed
buster (security)5.4.1-2+deb10u5fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye8.1.2+dfsg-0.3+deb11u1fixed
bookworm9.4.0-1.1fixed
sid, trixie10.2.0-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
pillowsourceexperimental8.2.0-1
pillowsourcestretch(not affected)
pillowsourcebuster5.4.1-2+deb10u3
pillowsource(unstable)8.1.2+dfsg-0.2989062

Notes

[stretch] - pillow <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.2.0.html#cve-2021-28678-fix-blp-dos
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/496245aa4365d0827390bd0b6fbd11287453b3a1

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