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Debian Trixie pillow Important DoS Risk DSA-6219-1 CVE-2026-40192

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Calendar Grey April 19, 2026
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Pillow library faces Denial of Service risk due to input sanitizing issue. Update recommended for stable distribution.
It was discovered that missing input sanitising in the FITS support of Pillow, a Python imaging library, could result in denial of service
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Summary

The oldstable distribution (bookworm) is not affected.

For the stable distribution (trixie), this problem has been fixed in
version 11.1.0-5+deb13u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your pillow packages.

For the detailed security status of pillow please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/pillow

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: pillow
CVE ID: CVE-2026-40192

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