Pillow before 8.1.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) because the reported size of a contained image is not properly checked for an ICO container, and thus an attempted memory allocation can be very large.
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Pillow before 8.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) because the reported size of a contained image is not properly checked for an ICO container, and thus an attempted memory allocation can be very large. Pillow before 8.1.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) because the reported size of a contained image is not properly checked for an ICO container, and thus an attempted memory allocation can be very large.
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-08-15T04:40:08.382Z

Reserved: 2021-03-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-27923

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-03-03T09:15:14.327

Modified: 2025-08-15T05:15:29.843

Link: CVE-2021-27923

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-03-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-27923 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.