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Fedora: 2016-a29a0e8250 Moderate: Python-Pillow Memory Corruption Fix

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Calendar Grey October 13, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora patch resolves vulnerabilities linked to buffer damages and memory leaks within python-imaging, thus boosting application security.
This update backports an overflow fix

Summary

Python image processing library, fork of the Python Imaging Library (PIL)

This library provides extensive file format support, an efficient

internal representation, and powerful image processing capabilities.

There are four subpackages: tk (tk interface), qt (PIL image wrapper for Qt),

devel (development) and doc (documentation).

Update Information:

This update backports an overflow fix. ---- Backport fix for three memory disclosure/corruption bugs from insufficient parameter validation leading to integer overflow.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora memory corruption moderate severity overflow issue python pillow

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-a29a0e8250 2016-10-12 18:56:55.303262
Name : python-pillow Product : Fedora 23 Version : 3.0.0 Release : 6.fc23 URL : / Summary : Python image processing library Description : Python image processing library, fork of the Python Imaging Library (PIL)
This library provides extensive file format support, an efficient internal representation, and powerful image processing capabilities.
There are four subpackages: tk (tk interface), qt (PIL image wrapper for Qt), devel (development) and doc (documentation).

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update python-pillow' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: python-pillow
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 3.0.0
Release: 6.fc23
URL: /
Summary: Python image processing library

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora memory corruption moderate severity overflow issue python pillow

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