Bug 2555879 (CVE-2026-112895)

Summary: CVE-2026-112895 pillow: pillow: Denial of service via crafted PDF during append operations
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: alinfoot, anpicker, anthomas, aprice, bbrownin, cmyers, dfreiber, dnakabaa, doconnor, drow, dschmidt, dtrifiro, ebourniv, ehelms, ggainey, hasun, ilpinto, jburrell, jfula, jlanda, jmitchel, jowilson, jpasqual, jsamir, juwatts, jwong, kaycoth, kshier, lcouzens, ltomasbo, mdellweg, mhayden, mhulan, mwoodson, nmoumoul, nyancey, oezr, omaciel, ometelka, osousa, pcreech, ptisnovs, rbobbitt, rchan, rhel-process-autobot, sbunciak, sdoran, simaishi, smallamp, stcannon, syedriko, tmalecek, vkumar, watson-tool-maintainers, weaton, xdharmai, yguenane, ykashtan
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A flaw was found in Pillow. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by supplying a specially crafted PDF document to an application performing PDF append operations. Because the PDF parser fails to properly track cyclic or deeply nested object references, processing the malicious document can consume excessive CPU and memory resources or trigger an application crash.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-19 22:01:47 UTC 
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 5.1.0 until 13.0.0, Pillow can exhaust resources while parsing an existing PDF during an append operation. PdfParser follows page-tree child references without cycle or duplication tracking and follows previous-trailer chains with only an exact repeated-offset guard, so deep or cyclic page trees and long chains of unique trailer offsets can exhaust the Python stack. Repeated non-cyclic /Kids references can also cause super-linear CPU and memory use. An attacker can supply such a PDF to an application that calls Image.save with PDF append enabled. This can raise an uncaught RecursionError or consume excessive CPU and memory before output is written, causing denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0.
Comment 2 Jon Orris 2026-10-29 22:38:15 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2026:92639 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:92639
Comment 5 Jon Orris 2026-11-05 19:41:22 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9

Via RHSA-2026:95656 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:95656
Comment 6 Jon Orris 2026-11-05 19:43:24 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9

Via RHSA-2026:95657 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:95657
Comment 7 Jon Orris 2026-11-05 19:43:40 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8
  Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9

Via RHSA-2026:95655 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:95655