Description
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.
Published: 2021-03-03
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-0179 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-95q3-8gr9-gm8w Pillow Denial of Service by Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4763-1 Pillow vulnerabilities
History

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

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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.
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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

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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

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