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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: USN-5227-3 Critical: Pillow Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5227-3 pertains to an unfinished resolution in the Pillow library impacting several LTS iterations of Ubuntu.
An incomplete fix was discovered in Pillow.

Summary

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security advisory denial of service critical issue ubuntu image processing pillow

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: python3-pil 7.0.0-4ubuntu0.6 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: python-pil 5.1.0-1ubuntu0.8 python3-pil 5.1.0-1ubuntu0.8 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5227-3

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5227-1

CVE-2022-22817

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October 24, 2022

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security advisory denial of service critical issue ubuntu image processing pillow

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pillow/7.0.0-4ubuntu0.6 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pillow/5.1.0-1ubuntu0.8

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