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Ubuntu: 4430-1 Critical Update for Pillow Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Specific file manipulations can exploit Pillow weaknesses, potentially resulting in system failures on Ubuntu versions 18.04 and 16.04 LTS.
Pillow could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

Pillow could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- pillow: Python Imaging Library

Details:

It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled certain image files. If

a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially-crafted

image file, a remote attacker could possibly cause Pillow to crash,

resulting in a denial of service.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update ubuntu crash pillow python imaging

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  python-pil                      5.1.0-1ubuntu0.3
  python3-pil                     5.1.0-1ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  python-pil                      3.1.2-0ubuntu1.4
  python3-pil                     3.1.2-0ubuntu1.4

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4430-1

CVE-2020-10177, CVE-2020-10378, CVE-2020-10994, CVE-2020-11538

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July 22, 2020

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security advisory denial of service software update ubuntu crash pillow python imaging

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pillow/5.1.0-1ubuntu0.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pillow/3.1.2-0ubuntu1.4

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