Bug 1179354 (CVE-2014-9601)

Summary: CVE-2014-9601 python-pillow: potential denial-of-service during PNG decompression
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: jrusnack, manisandro, miminar, tsmetana
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Fixed In Version: Pillow 2.7.0 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-06 15:13:46 UTC
Pillow release 2.7.0 fixes a potential denial-of-service issue in PNG decompression code [1].

Exact upstream commit that resolves this:
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/b3e09122e527ae554eb590741bbd7611d5710e40

[1]: http://pillow.readthedocs.org/releasenotes/2.7.0.html#png-text-chunk-size-limits

Comment 2 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-19 08:50:03 UTC
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2014-9601 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2014-9601
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9601
Assigned: 20150116
Reference: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/02/pillow-security-release/

Pillow before 2.7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service via a compressed text chunk in a PNG image that has a large
size when it is decompressed.