Bug 1958257 (CVE-2021-28677)

Summary: CVE-2021-28677 python-pillow: Excessive CPU use in EPS image reader
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bdettelb, cheimes, cstratak, kaycoth, manisandro, miminar, orion, paul, python-maint, tomckay, torsava
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Fixed In Version: python-pillow-8.2.0 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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A flaw was found in python-pillow. The readline used in EPS has to deal with any combination of \r and \n as line endings. It accidentally used a quadratic method of accumulating lines while looking for a line ending. A malicious EPS file could use this to perform a denial-of-service of Pillow in the open phase, before an image was accepted for opening.
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Bug Depends On: 1958258, 1958259, 1958260, 1958261, 1959683, 1962540, 1962542    
Bug Blocks: 1958269    

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-05-07 14:10:13 UTC
The readline used in EPS has to deal with any combination of \r and \n as line endings. It accidentally used a quadratic method of accumulating lines while looking for a line ending. A malicious EPS file could use this to perform a denial-of-service of Pillow in the open phase, before an image was accepted for opening. This dates to the PIL fork.

References:
https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/8.2.0.html#security
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/5377

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-05-07 14:11:04 UTC
Created mingw-python-pillow tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1958261]


Created python-pillow tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1958259]


Created python2-pillow tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1958258]


Created python3-pillow tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1958260]

Comment 4 Sam Fowler 2021-05-11 00:27:24 UTC
Mitigation:

To mitigate this feature on Red Hat Quay keep the invoice generation feature disabled, as it is by default.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-09 17:24:45 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2021:4149 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4149

Comment 11 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-11-09 18:52:06 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-28677