| Name | CVE-2019-16865 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, 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) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.6.1-2+deb8u10 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 4.0.0-4+deb9u4 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.0.0-4+deb9u6 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 5.4.1-2+deb10u6 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 8.1.2+dfsg-0.3+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 9.4.0-1.1+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 10.4.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| pillow | source | buster | 5.4.1-2+deb10u1 | | | |
| pillow | source | (unstable) | 6.2.0-1 | low | | |
| python-imaging | source | wheezy | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| python-imaging | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
Notes
[stretch] - pillow <ignored> (Minor issue, too intrusive to backport)
[jessie] - pillow <ignored> (Risk of regressions is too high)
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/b36c1bc943d554ba223086c7efb502d080f73905
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/f228d0ccbf6bf9392d7fcd51356ef2cfda80c75a
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/b9693a51c99c260bd66d1affeeab4a226cf7e5a5
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/cc16025e234b7a7a4dd3a86d2fdc0980698db9cc