Bug 2555878 (CVE-2026-112893)

Summary: CVE-2026-112893 pillow: Pillow: Denial of Service via invalid pointer free during font rendering
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: alinfoot, anpicker, anthomas, aprice, bbrownin, cmyers, dfreiber, dnakabaa, doconnor, drow, dschmidt, dtrifiro, ebourniv, ehelms, ggainey, hasun, ikhan, ilpinto, jburrell, jfula, jlanda, jmitchel, jowilson, jpasqual, jsamir, juwatts, jwong, kaycoth, kshier, lcouzens, ltomasbo, mdellweg, mhayden, mhulan, nmoumoul, nyancey, oezr, omaciel, ometelka, osousa, pcreech, ptisnovs, rbobbitt, rchan, rhel-process-autobot, sbunciak, sdoran, simaishi, smallamp, stcannon, syedriko, tmalecek, ttakamiy, vkumar, watson-tool-maintainers, weaton, xdharmai, yguenane, ykashtan
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A flaw was found in Pillow. When rendering text using FreeType with an active stroke width, a failure during glyph loading can cause the library to free an uninitialized or stale memory pointer. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by supplying a malformed font to an application that renders stroked text. Successful exploitation can lead to memory corruption or an application crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-19 22:01:39 UTC
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 10.0.0 until 13.0.0, Pillow can free an invalid glyph pointer during FreeType rendering with an active stroker. If FT_Load_Glyph fails, cleanup may call FT_Done_Glyph on an uninitialized or stale glyph variable. An attacker can supply a malformed font as untrusted bytes to an application that draws text with a nonzero stroke width, forcing the glyph-load failure path. This can corrupt memory or crash the process. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.