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CVE-2021-28675 (GCVE-0-2021-28675)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-02 14:29 – Updated: 2024-08-03 21:47
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. PSDImagePlugin.PsdImageFile lacked a sanity check on the number of input layers relative to the size of the data block. This could lead to a DoS on Image.open prior to Image.load.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releaseno… x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-33 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
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