Bug 1958257 (CVE-2021-28677) - CVE-2021-28677 python-pillow: Excessive CPU use in EPS image reader
Summary: CVE-2021-28677 python-pillow: Excessive CPU use in EPS image reader
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2021-28677
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: Red Hat1959683 1958258 1958259 1958260 1958261 Red Hat1962540 Red Hat1962542
Blocks: Embargoed1958269
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Reported: 2021-05-07 14:10 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2021-11-09 18:52 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: python-pillow-8.2.0
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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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Last Closed: 2021-11-09 18:52:08 UTC

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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:4149 0 None None None 2021-11-09 17:24:47 UTC

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 6 Riccardo Schirone 2021-05-20 08:45:18 UTC 
Upstream patch:
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/commit/5a5e6db0abf4e7a638fb1b3408c4e495a096cb92
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
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