CVE-2026-96638

Name	CVE-2026-96638
Description	Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 9.1.0 until 13.0.0, BmpRleDecoder.decode() in src/PIL/BmpImagePlugin.py permits crafted RLE BMP delta escapes and absolute-mode runs to append beyond the remaining dest_length without a per-branch cap. A delta can add roughly 255 image rows in one iteration, so a kilobyte-sized file with a large but permitted width can expand the data bytearray to hundreds of megabytes or more, causing memory-exhaustion denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
pillow (PTS)	bookworm, bookworm (security)	9.4.0-1.1+deb12u1	vulnerable
	trixie	11.1.0-5+deb13u4	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	11.1.0-5+deb13u3	vulnerable
	forky	12.3.0-1	vulnerable
	sid	13.0.0-1	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
pillow	source	(unstable)	13.0.0-1

Notes

https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/security/advisories/GHSA-24rc-8hj2-v98c
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/10015
Fixed by: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/e7794835e323ff2691d9b3a974cade1a44301b9a (13.0.0)